| Show HOW MUCH HISTORY IS MADE da DR RUSSell commonly called among newspaper men bull buil run rua russell bussell wrote a series of letters some years ago to the T morning post which were freely copied into american journals and made quite a stir they were full of blood and thunder sensations narrated as facts and gave accounts of shootings and robberies and frightful crimes committed on the american frontiers conveying convey ing ideas of border r u not at all flattering to the civilization of this country it now appears that most of these terrible stories were stuffed into Russell bussell when he was wag warmed up with hot scotch by practical jokers of the company in which he be traveled who manufactured the stories out of devilment and for the purpose of filling the dr with the material he was hungry for this is now being exposed at russell bussell russells bussells sells expense and many a laugh is evoked at the noted correspondents gullibility but bull run bun russell bussell and the readers of his ills stories were no worse victimized than are many visitors visitor to utah and those who read their contributions to antl ant ll il 11 mormon s litera ture any stranger who comes cornea here with an appetite for the marvelous on the lookout for something of a bloodcurdling blood curdling nature and with a nose senaid sensitive ve to nastiness swill find persons here ready to stuff him full of or as gross inventions as ever russell bussell gulped down and spread out for the regaled regalement e nt of the british public C some borne of these persons do this out of malice others for what they thi think is fun and stories of canites Da destroying ying angels women forced to marry property taken from deluded victims hair pulling and ether other domestic diversions mysterious ceremonies licentious licentiousness nessy rebellion I 1 sedition treason serfdom etc nie ato ae trumped up and repeated to eager ears while the open eyed and gape mouthed victim takei take it all in and after making note frequently touches it up rusell bussell fashion for the delectation of others of like palate often people are pointed out in the streets street s of thib th city as the i 0 eroes or heroines heroine of or the clear fiction for the strangers wonder and the startled fellow can tell teli his friends that he knows it is true for he has bueri been seen the parties wiio wilo wio figured in the deed dead innocent men some of them gentiles 1 1 have been indicated as the chief actors in most awful deeds of mormon and who were never married at all as the victims t f polygamous 01 such deceptions aa a these are likely to occur while tourists are ready and anxious to hear something marvel maivel lou or do not seek for information from authentic sources they gain heir their ideas of mormonism from anti antl mormon literature and of the mormons cormons Mor mons from persons interested or amused in lea ing them astray A great deai deal of what is called history is made up of just such untrustworthy stuff as russells bussells jetters on american frontier life and the false and foolish stories that are manufactured about the mormons cormons Mor mons |
