Money and Trade
from Utah As It Is, by S.A. Kenner, published in 1904 While the object of the Pioneers and those who came here soon after the…
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ASHTON, Thomas
Thomas took a very active part in the planning and construction of Lehi's first water ditch and was one of the city's first water masters, w…
CULMER, William Harrison: The Last of the “Dickens’ Boys”
“Billy the Cartwheeler”, does some reminiscing By HELEN MILLER LEHMAN, Improvement Era, July 1938 IN his tiny room in a fraternal home in northern California,…
Tales of the Old West | Gold Rush Travelers
gold fever caused many to head for California. Some went by ship around Cape Horn, others crossed the isthmus of Panama hoping to board a…
Tales of the Old West | Barkerville B.C.
Billy Barker was one of dozens of English sailors who jumped ship in search of gold. At the bottom of a fifty foot hole they struck…
Tales of the Old West | Bering Sea Whaler
In 1856 six year old Minnie and her mother Mary with her husband Captain Sam Lawrence boarded the whaling ship Addison. They spent the next…
Emigrant Ships Passage Rates & Rations: 1847-1894
This article originally appeared in Vol.62, No.2 (2015) of Pioneer Magazine. by Pioneer Magazine When ships would go full to the United States ports, they…
ATKIN, Thomas Jr.
When the call came in late 1857, for men to defend the church against Johnston's army, Thomas and other Tooele men responded. The Tooele continge…
