Millard County’s Banded Gneiss
“Through all this, some 1.75 billion years, they lay, waiting their eventual return to the surface.“
P.E. Connor and Brigham Young meet at Cove Fort
“To say that Colonel Connor and President Young didn’t get along is a significant understatement.”
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.”
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 […]”
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.’”
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
“Worst of all, some reports indicate that most of the killing was done, execution style, by the Mormon Militia after the emigrants had agreed to accept protection offered by their supposed Mormon protectors.”
The Promontory Reinactment
“[…] when Leland Stanford of the Central Pacific stepped forward to drive the last spike, ‘He missed.’”
