Brother Brigham

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    MITCHELL, James Jr. & Anne Hull

    Up north in the Upper Snake River Valley, the virgin soil was bringing forth bounteous crops. This land could be had almost for the asking, so James took advantage of the pre-exemption rights of the Homestead Act and secured 360 acres of virgin soil just two miles north of Shelley, Idaho. So it was that in 1885, James came to Idaho.
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      DAVENPORT, James and Almira Phelps

      In this spring of 1847, James Davenport was recruited as a blacksmith for the first company to leave with Brigham Young for the Great Basin of the West. They would generally follow the Oregon/California Trail along the Platte River. But they deliberately chose the opposite side of the river from the well-traveled side. Part of the mission of that first company was to identify the best route for the trail and the best sources for feed for the livestock, and to improve the road for the thousands that would follow. There were worrisome encounters with Indians, whose intentions were not well-know at the time, but no serious troubles occurred.
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        ALLEN, Andrew Lee

        The family moved to Provo, where Andrew and his sons helped to build the Provo Fort. Andrew taught his sons to work and take care of their animals. The sons worked quite often as teamsters. Andrew was an excellent rope maker and knew how to make dyes from plants. He made tassels and decorations for his teams.
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          ALLEN, Andrew

          WHILE WORKING AROUND A THRESHING MACHINE, ANDREW LOST HIS ARM IN THE GEARS, NEEDING AMPUTATION ABOVE THE ELBOW. IT WAS SAID OF ANDREW, HE COULD HARNESS A TEAM OR ANY OTHER WORK ON A FARM AS QUICKLY AS ANY MAN WITH TWO ARMS AND HANDS.
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            STEPHENS, Evan

            This article originally appeared in Vol.50, No.1 (2003) of Pioneer Magazine. by Janet Peterson Evan Stephens‘s philosophy of Mormon music, “that which breathes optimism and not pessimism, “1 permeates the…
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