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-1- EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF LOGAN The Journal, Logan Cache County Utah 22 Dec 1923 Vol XLIV #306 P8 & VOL XLVII #5 Jan 5, 1924 P12 About twenty five years ago, I took the trouble to interview a number of the pioneer settlers of the valley as to their experiences during those first years with a view of preserve to posterity some of the important events, that do not usually get into print in historic sketches. Most of those old settlers were plain unassuming people, content to persue the even tennor of their ways without trying to herald their achievements by buying space in Tullidges Magazine, Jensens Biographies, or Whitneys Histories. They did not have the money and would not have spent for that purpose if they had had it, so their biographies are not found there. I knew the time would come when they would be accorded their true place in our local history and I wanted them to get their full credit for what they did. Bishop Thomas X. Smith used to say We killed snakes, faught the indians, dug the ditches, built the roads, subdued the desert, and who has a better right to the country than we have? We might have added and who is more intltled to credit. No where have I ever seen in print the names of the men who rode to Franklin on theat memorable night, When the brethern were in trouble there or who rode out oten in persuit of the indians who had run off their stock; or who went back to the Missour year after year for immigrants. There was no more heroic deed done than that performed by Edw. Golden, Dick Steel and the boys who carried the powder from the Sherman building on the night of the fire. All of these things should be preserved as events of pioneer days end full credit given to the real actors. There are slight discrepancies in the narratives of some of the old settlers, but there are usually no names and dytas which cannot easily bs corrected.
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Transcript | -1- EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF LOGAN The Journal, Logan Cache County Utah 22 Dec 1923 Vol XLIV #306 P8 & VOL XLVII #5 Jan 5, 1924 P12 About twenty five years ago, I took the trouble to interview a number of the pioneer settlers of the valley as to their experiences during those first years with a view of preserve to posterity some of the important events, that do not usually get into print in historic sketches. Most of those old settlers were plain unassuming people, content to persue the even tennor of their ways without trying to herald their achievements by buying space in Tullidges Magazine, Jensens Biographies, or Whitneys Histories. They did not have the money and would not have spent for that purpose if they had had it, so their biographies are not found there. I knew the time would come when they would be accorded their true place in our local history and I wanted them to get their full credit for what they did. Bishop Thomas X. Smith used to say We killed snakes, faught the indians, dug the ditches, built the roads, subdued the desert, and who has a better right to the country than we have? We might have added and who is more intltled to credit. No where have I ever seen in print the names of the men who rode to Franklin on theat memorable night, When the brethern were in trouble there or who rode out oten in persuit of the indians who had run off their stock; or who went back to the Missour year after year for immigrants. There was no more heroic deed done than that performed by Edw. Golden, Dick Steel and the boys who carried the powder from the Sherman building on the night of the fire. All of these things should be preserved as events of pioneer days end full credit given to the real actors. There are slight discrepancies in the narratives of some of the old settlers, but there are usually no names and dytas which cannot easily bs corrected. |
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