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Show Feature AdvS futures On Scoutony By Royce Young Two monuments in Kanab honor its founder, ' Jacob Hamblin. This is not sufficient, especially during this sesqui- centennial year when we honor our pioneer ancestors. Jacob is worthy to be held in emulation by all boy scouts, for he was probably the greatest scout to ever set foot in the great Ameri- can West. Following are some remarks that his colleagues, and histori- ans, then and now have said about him. WIXOM: Not even the vener- able Daniel Boone had more daily contact with the American aborigine than Jacob Hamblin. He entered warring Navajo and Hopi country, against warnings of friends, so many times that historians stopped keeping track. Its entirely unlikely anyone journeyed as many miles in the saddle during a 50 year span in world history than did Jacob Hamblin. Father Escalante, in the name of his religion, is well re- membered for one single trek across a trackless wilderness, Jacob Hamblin made dozens of such trips. Extensive records show that many Califorians, southern Ne- vadans, Utahns and Arizonians, today may well owe their very existence when ancestors were spared death at the hands of hostile Indians to the express intervention of Hamblin and those he directed. Countless times when a rash or fearful act might precipitate bloodshed, Hamblin moved with a wisdom rarely found in a ter- restrial sphere. DELLENBAUGH: Hamblin, . any other white man POWELL: This man Hamblin has a great influence with all the Indians .... I have found it very difficult to make the na- tives understand my object but the gravity of the Mormon mis sionary helps me much. YOUNG: His ability to find his way in totally' unfamiliar territory is unmatched in the world of scouts." his cour- His hun- to endure: his age, ability and are illness, prac- ger, thirst, of. unheard tically His fearlessness left he, alone, to tackle obstacles that an armed posse wouldnt attempt. JOHN E. SMITH: Hamblin behaved with admirable coolness, Not a muscle in his face quiv- ered, nor a feature of his conti- nence changed, as he communi- cated to us, what we then fully believed to be the death warrant of us all .... Though frequently and rudely interrupted, his pa- tience and nerve never gave way .... I wish to give testimony as to the bearing of Mr. Hamblin. No braver man ever lived! EVANS: His most dependable weapon was prayer and a most absolute trust in God. He knew more perhaps than any other American ever knew of the na- tive, and exerted more influence among them. HASKELL: Made it dear in his journals that, in following Jacob Hamblin, he felt he fol- lowed the will of the Lord. TENNY: I learned many les- sons from that noble and God- fearingman and one who never self-confidenc- e, faltered in performing his du- ties. WIXOM: LDS literature is filled with stories of faith healings, but few recorded more of them than Jacob Hamblin. Jacob talks of the spirit" as frequently and openly and y as any of the four gospel writers in the New Testament." THOMPSON: Jacob was a man I could trust with my money, my life, and my honor, the leatherstocking" of Utah knew the American Indians bet- ter than any man who ever lived. matter-of-factl- CARLSON: This good man, so fervently a believer in his religion, made friends with the redmen of this region and did more with kindness and patience and truth to pacify them than six companies of U.S. Cavalry could do with bullets." FLAKE: Armed militia hurry- ing about from one trouble spot to another has probably had less to do with keeping peace than the quiet influence ofJacob Hamblin. SCHREINER: We do know that nowhere could be found a more energetic and courageous ex-It would appear no one plorer worked harder to bridge the con- fiietbetween white and red man in bringing peace to the frontier. Jacob SEKAQAPTEWA: Hamblins personal daily life example had more lasting im- pact upon the Hopi people than anything ever said or taught by . knowing all would be safe." BAILEY: Hamblin was a man who could not lie." YOUNG: So in tune with Heaven was Jacob that he told of countless future events that would happen, against seemingly insurmountable odds. They oc- curredjust as he had prophesied. WIXOM: In modern times, only figures like Livingstone and Mother Teresa might match time spent in missionary work. Few have expanded greater devotion and energy to a humanitarian cause. Incalculable lives cf both red and white along the fron- tiers have been saved, as well as fa- . their souls, where so called taous explorers, scouts, trappers, ' - and mountain men have left behind scenes of carnage. Excerpts from Jacob's journal When I saw the women and ""S Is aging necessary? 15 By Barbara Pyles come of age this month and people will call me an olcfer re-American. How does alty feel? There is an under in my heart that I . ' you're aging. Ifyou always walk in crowds to keep from falling down, youre aging. If you look in the minor and dont recog nize the person looking back, no doubt about it, youre aging. crying children fleeing for their have entered the latter part of When your granddaughter lives barefoot upon the rocks and my life, and there is an urgency lodes herself in the bathroom through the snow, leaving a trail to use time welL Yet, I say to and you forget shes there, of blood, it aroused my sympa- - myself, 1 am not that old. youre aging Ifyou remember thies, and I felt inspired to pre- a is voyage through Zsa Zsa Gabors first wedding, Aging vent the company from shooting Hmi in mhirh part: ynv nnt aging, ynmVa jv.st old. any ofthem. I fully made up my ft jg impossible to avoid or pre- - mind, that if I had anything more ven OJj dear, how fast the - Humor is therapeutic. But to do with the Indians, it would how can you develop a sense of years arc going, said a be in a different way." old. So hallelqjah, lets havev humor? Here are some sugges- JACOB: My superior officer gome fun, I replied. tions: decided to have them shot I told Relax and limber up. Let When I was about five, aging him I did not care to live after I didnt look like anything I things hang out Read witty had seen the Indians, whose safety wanted to do. My grandmoth- - columns and books. Laugh out I had guaranteed, murdered. If ers took life seriously. One dis- - loud. Do something silly and there were any to be shot, I should played herself in drab dresses dont worry about your reputa- be the first, and placed myself in and wore her hair in a bun. The tion, enjoy a second childhood, front of the Indians." other sat in a chair and rocked. Be creative. Live life and love Old INDIAN CHIEF: When I was ten, I realized it. Leave no time for self-pitAgarapoots will never be satis- - there were two adults in my life cancel out any other negative fietl until he has your blood... You who always had a twinkle in state, know he has killed two Paiutes If I had my life to live over, fd their eyes and a laugh in their and one of our oxen, burned his hearts. There was a lot cfhorse- - make more mistakes, and have lodge, and taken many Indians play at our house. Once my dad fewer imaginary problems. Fd with him into the mountains. chased me around the dining walk barefoot more, climb JACOB: I invited all the mis-- room table with his false teeth, mountains, jump from an air- sionary brothers, one by one, to My mother sat in a chair and plane, quilt, and do crafts. If I go with me to restore peace with laughs Because of my dads had my life to live over again, Agarapoots but they all refused.... antics, and my mothers laugh- - Fd live each with a remark: T would as soon ter I hoped that ifI should ever - Personally, I like being an go into a den of grizzly bears! rack up that many years (my old gaL I know who I am, and JACOB: When told he should dad was in his mid 40s and my Fm pleased with myself. life never think of seeing home mom 10 years younger) that I still holds manyjoys, and I plan again, and the hostile council would have as much fun. on being as disgraceful as pos-fixen to roast him over the fire, When I had children of my sible in my second childhood, an angry Paiute chief asked: Are own jjygy to think The way I see age is that I j was you not afraid? much about aging. It was some- - finally got it together. It took JACOB: What is there to scare cn ap. amM thing me? Voa TthinV life. in later pearance CHIEF: The Navajos! .. . . V s So, it ia a puzzle. How did I so. JACOB: I am not afraid of my Bionic Woman, arrive at the life is either a A ring friends! where I suffer with venture, or nothin." Hdcn CHIEF: Friends! You have affliction as creaky.: KelierT not a friend in the whole Navajo joints? Just when did this fa-; Nation. Navajo blood has been Udthua stag of my life begin? Actlv&uruiiwtcn spilt in your land.... Are you not My children say it was when I afraid!?" You tdl ms Fra getting old, started to drink prune juice. JACOB: No, my heart never You just dethen understand, v and there I Rlit ' knew fear!" ddsd that the subject of aging The dweller in my house A marauding, unfamiliar, is usually good for a chuckle. Is ytuimd bright and gay, Eastern Navajo war party had Yhkh reminds me, Ifyou stand Just starting on a life to last already killed George A. Smith in front of the refrigerator door Throughout eternal day. y when he went after a in a daze, youre aging. And for You mly see the outside horse.-NoJacobs whole com- - the person who has any doubts Which is all most folks see. pany was to die unless they gave about aging: When you mis- - You tell me Dm getting old, You've mixed my house with up two more white men to avenge takenly spray Arrid Extra Dry the previous murder of some in a bunt pan instead of Pam, me! .. JH . L Navajos in New Mexico. JACOB: I would not give one cent to live after I had given up slowly approached and engulfed the Grand Canyon, even tore a two men to be murdered. I would me in his arms saying, My friend, sketched map of such from his rather die like a man than live my brother. journal and gave it to Powell, like a dog! Jacob died at Pleasanton, Ari- How different would Kanab zona, almost in obscurity, with Among many thousands of Indians of various tribes at the be? The whole southwest would much ofhis family ill. No eulogy, great peace treaty at Fort Defi- - have been bathed in the blood of no funeral. In fact, passing ance, Jacob spoke for over an both white and Indian, without strangers had to dig his grave. I believe his time has come for hour. It was the first time they Jacob. How long would it have had ever heard from the lips of a taken to win the wrest? a eulogy. There has been no white man a speech that carried Jacob reopened the Crossing of greater frontiersman. We will with it the spirit and power of a the Fethers, established the Lees sing his legacy, tell his story, heart-fe- lt friendship. As I took Ferry and Pierce Crossings, twice speak ofhis faith, walk in his my seat I noticed the tears start traveled completely around the courageous footsteps, under the in the eyes ofBarbencita, princi- - Grand Canyon, guided John same stars, around todays Boy pal chief of the Navajos. He Wessley Powell on a survey of Scout campfires. . pin 70-yea-r- y, split-secon- d. tw 1 San dat . run-a-wa- . w . . M .iV- - .. |