Sam Gilson and the Gilson Mountains

“Gilson’s goal seems to have been ambitious, to reach to the very top: He was after none other than Brigham Young himself.”

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Scipio A. Kenner and Brigham Young

“Apparently the interrogation didn’t go as well as it might, or at least it was not to Young’s satisfaction, for after a short pause he said: ‘Are you a Mormon?’, ‘Well,’ stammered the lad, ‘slightly.’”

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The Best Preserved Dinosaur You are Ever Likely to See

“I have never been able to look at it without thinking that surely it must have died just recently; maybe last summer […]”

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The Cambrian Explosion

“It was an expression of life unlike anything which has occurred before or after, an explosion of sorts, ‘Nature’s Big Bang.’”

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The Great Debate of 1870

“Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy – Pratt vs. Newman?”

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