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Posted on 07/01/2008 10:05:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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I don't know what's going on right now. He fell from the side of a building he was restoring, and we couldn't see the old homestead on the immediate area... I'll have to do some calls and research. I've got a herd o cousins living down in American Fork. It seems like I spent my summers at Mutual Dell, which is now a Boy Scout camp.
It's really a beautiful piece of earth... I took this last summer, probably 20 minutes east of town up American Fork Canyon...
Oh, btw, that’s the mountain you’ll see in the background of lots of Bronson movies, and Grizzly Adams reruns. Mount Timpanogos.
Awesome post bd!
I had no idea you had ancestors on earth. I will have to reevaluate you in light of that...
Thank you glock rocks. I started re-reading and researching the Battle of Gettysburg again and then hours later realized that posting just a little bit about this three day battle would not do justice to the courage, personal sacrifices and stories of both sides.
That’s not only beautiful, it’s majestic! You don’t live far from there?
Idaho, the last of the 50 states to be explored by whites, is admitted to the union.
Exploration of the North American continent mostly proceeded inward from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and northward from Spanish Mexico. Therefore, the rugged territory that would become Idaho long remained untouched by Spanish, French, British, and American trappers and explorers.
Even as late as 1805, Idaho Indians like the Shoshone had never encountered a white man. That changed with the arrival of the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the summer of 1805. Searching for a route over the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, Lewis and Clark traveled through Idaho with the aid of the Shoshone Indians and their horses.
British fur traders and trappers followed a few years later, as did missionaries and a few hardy settlers. As with many remote western states, large-scale settlement began only after gold was discovered. Thousands of miners rushed into Idaho when word of a major gold strike came in September 1860. Merchants and farmers followed, eager to make their fortunes "mining the miners."
By 1880, Idaho boasted a population of 32,610. In the southern section of the territory, many settlers were Mormons who had been dispatched from Salt Lake City to found new colonies.
Increasingly, Idaho territory became divided between a Mormon-dominated south and an anti-Mormon north. In the mid-1880s, anti-Mormon Republicans used widespread public antipathy toward the Mormon practice of polygamy to pass legislation denying the predominantly Democratic Mormons the vote.
With the Democratic Mormon vote disarmed, Idaho became a Republican-dominated territory. National Republicans eager to increase their influence in the U.S. Congress began to push for Idaho statehood in 1888.
The following year, the Idaho territorial legislature approved a strongly anti-Mormon constitution. The U.S. Congress approved the document on this day in 1890, and Idaho became the 43rd state in the Union.
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That's a beautiful photo of beautiful country, glock rocks. Do you live nearby?
A good distraction always works for me. I’ve been watching action movies and horror shows.
Lessee heah... about 20 min to Cabelas, 15 minutes to Alpine Loop Road. Yep. Heaven in under an hour. Here's my youngest, brandishing his assault Nikon towards Mount Timp...
Impressive lens he’s got there! Looks like heaven to me. Be more than hour from here unless we can get Teddy’s jet.
What peak is that. You said some movies were filmed there and that must be why it looks familiar to me.
How old is your son there?
The slide sounds like fun, probably best when the snow’s deepest, you think?
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