Uintah Basin Standard | 1962-07-19 | Page 2 | Spirit of 1847 Lives on in Our Lives

Spirit of 1847 Lives On In Our Lives ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN years ago next the first of the Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake And like the Pilgrim Fathers In Massachusetts more than years they not as adventurers seeking but as freedom-loving men and women In a search for THE PIONEERS WERE which is hardly surprising since Brigham Young was their No sooner had they arrived in the valley than they broke ground for built a and laid out a city ten-acre They set up a government and as early as were petitioning Congress for CLEARLY THESE WERE PEOPLE who meant to stay and who were determined to IN BASIN Leonard J. be there was the same the same the same struggle for as m all Western But the joint action and group planning all stamped the Mormon frontier as a contrast with the lumber and homestead frontiers with which historians have familiarized THE STATE OF DESERET was Western in its own particular way just as the state of Utah is That is what we mean by the Pioneer THIS COMMONWEALTH WAS founded by a dedicated people after making the arduous journey from the Missouri River to the Salt Lake then had to face the hardships of an inhospitable Tire PIONEER STORY HAS BEEN told again and It is well worth For despite hardships almost unimaginable in the present the Pioneers brought civilization into the heart of Uie West In the words of made the desert as the within only a few travelers crossing the continent exclaimed over the of the Salt Lake and Mormon success with irrigation was a tremendous force in the western reclamation FIRST SETTLERS ANYWHERE in the world must be they must take with them what they can and make do with what they But if what they build Is to self-sufficiency is not THEY MUST HAVE DISCIPLINE and organization and the faith that moves THESE QUALITIES THE PIONEERS had in full PIONEERING IS OVER IN THE sense of opening new lives As Walt Whitman said But the pioneer spirit must march we must bear the brunt of the youthful sinewy all the rest on us O