Salt Lake City, Past and Present
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Fohlin, E. V.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Salt Lake City, Past and Present: A Narrative of Its History and Romance, Its People and Culture, Its Industry and Commerce, Its Attractions and Grandeurs, Its Bright and Promising Future, With Chapters of Utah´s General Resources and Progressiveness It is not the object of this book to present a history of this city or state in detail (which in numerous editions has already been published and given to the world), but to present to these interested a brief review of the story of this community to whose people honor and credit must be given for the toil, energy and enterprise displayed in changing a barren and unbroken wilderness (believed then to be unfit for habitation by civilized man) into a place which today represents in rich measure the fruits of the unceasing labor and hardships endured by the Pioneers of this intermountain state and the works of those of later years. About sixty years ago, standing on the edge of the Mississippi river (then the border of the civilized part of our country), towards the western part of the continent. Without inducements, without advice or encouragement from friend or foe and without knowledge of their final stopping point or destination, this company, numbering about one thousand families, in February, 1846, broke camp prepared to cross the Mississippi river and to traverse the thousands of miles of barren and unsettled prairie of this western country. They were scantily provided with clothing and provisions for undertaking such an unprecedented journey, which must result in untold suffering to all and death to some, and which was the only result looked for by a disinterested world. Within the bosoms of those brave and honored pilgrims, whose journey was towards the setting sun, rested no discouragement, no retreat. Forced to seek a place of refuge, like the pilgrims of Plymouth Rock, they showed no sign of weakness in their hopes, reliance and trust, these being as firm as the rocks created and set in place by that Power to whom only they looked for succor in the hour of distress and oppression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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