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…
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President’s Message: December 2021
This is a cherished time of year as we move from Thanksgiving to christmas followed by 2022, the New Year ahead. We look forward with anticipation. The current Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Wind Wagons
A sail on a wagon to cross the plains? Sounds crazy, but “Windwagon Thomas” Sam Peppard and others gave it a try, not much success, Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Chuck Wagons
Cattle drives depended on a good foreman and cook. Coffee, sourdough biscuits, bacon, steak, beans, pot roast, short ribs and son-of-a-(gun) stew, cowboys were well Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Wild West Shows
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show began in 1883. Gunfights, outlaws, stagecoach and wagon train attacks, sharpshooters and Cossack Prince Tifto all added to the excitement Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Almo Creek Massacre
A wagon train was traveling from Missouri in 1861 on the Oregon Trail. In Idaho they took the California trail when disaster struck. Later, another Read More »
Tales of the Old West | The Gunnison Battle
Captain John Gunnison was on a surveying mission in Utah Territory. A wagon train of Missourians, determined to kill Indians, and Pahvant Indians bent on Read More »
Tales of the Old West | The Mormon Exodus – Episode 2
Brigham Young organized the exodus in 1847. They came by ship, wagon trains and handcarts to settle in the Great Basin. Immigrants heading west were Read More »
Tales of the Old West | “Brazen Bill” Brazelton
He didn’t swallow a wagon wheel but did single-handed rob stage coaches. He nearly got away by using disguises and putting horse shoes on backwards. Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Massacre Rocks
Horror week along the Oregon Trail in August 1862. A narrow passage between the Snake River and lava hills provided a good place for Indian Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Blue Bucket Mine
A lost wagon train in Oregon sparked a gold rush. Three young men picked up some unusual looking pebbles in a creek, they carried them Read More »
Tales of the Old West | First Wagons West
William Ashley in 1827 took the first wheeled wagon west of the Missouri. William Sublette in 1829, Reverends Whitman and Spaulding in 1836. In 1843 the Read More »
Tales of the Old West | Oregon Trail Along the Snake River – Part 1
The Spauldings and Whitmans showed that a wheeled wagon could cross the country. Crossing the Snake River Plain was dry, dusty, with little food, grass Read More »
Tales of the Old West | The Scouts
Former trappers became scouts for the explorers, missionaries, surveyors, the army and wagon trains. Many were pathfinders who opened up the West, men like Jim Read More »
Lest We Forget: Captain Lot Smith
Dr. Seymour B. Young of the First Council of Seventy Captain Lot Smith Captain Smith enlisted in the volunteer service to help win the war Read More »
A Song of Wheels
This article originally appeared in Vol.55, No.1 (2008) of pioneer magazine. by Margery S. Stewart The wagon wheels are high and white. They make a Read More »
STAINES, William C.: Original Pioneer
Another of the original immigrants to Sail Lake valley was William C. Staines, for many years the emigration agent of the Church of Jesus Christ Read More »
CHAPMAN Julia Ann
Other than for Julia's health, Isaac was well equipped to travel. In the heat of the late spring, Julia gained some weight and felt pretty well. …
