The ice being thus broken, and the pioneers of the flock giving good accounts of the new pasture, others soon eagerly began to follow their footsteps in large numbers.
Fortunately for the homeless pioneers the climate was genial and favourable, and all that could be expected from its southern latitude of 35 degrees.
He was one of the pioneers of Universalism in the West, and did good service as a Christian minister.
His father was one of the pioneers of Eastern Maine, and the son passed his early years in a new country, in the midst of hardships incident to such a condition.
When the main body of pioneers started on from that point, they left ten men with the boat to maintain the ferry until the next company from Winter Quarters should come up.
On the following day occurred the annual celebration of the arrival of the pioneers in the valley.
When the rest of the pioneers who had remained with Young reached the valley the next day, they found about six acres of potatoes and other vegetables already planted.
Pioneers in a country where there was little to give variety to their lives, they were easily influenced by any religious excitement, and the announcement of a new Bible and prophet was certain to arouse their liveliest interest.
At this point the pioneers met a brother Mormon who had made the journey to California round the Horn, and had started east from there to meet the overland travellers.
The pioneers resumed their march on June 29, over a desolate country, travelling seventeen miles without finding grass or water, until they made their night camp on the Big Sandy.
But while this distant West was still so unknown to the settled parts of the country, these Mormon pioneers were by no means the first to traverse it, as the records of the journeyings of Lewis and Clark, Ezekiel Williams, General W.
The sole idea of thesepioneers seemed to be to preach to the Indians.
Biblical learning is thus proved to have been ever foremost in the minds of the pioneers of monasticism.
Perhaps they think that no state was ever in such danger before, and that they themselves are the pioneers of an order of things entirely new, under unprecedented circumstances.
But, although the Italians have been pioneers in this movement, it has not been confined to them; it extends to all civilized nations, and expresses a general tendency of the age.
Of the generations after that of the pioneers we would know much; of that of the pioneers themselves, something.
The book referred to is entitled Early History of Cleveland, with Biographical Notices of the Pioneers and Survivors; its author was Colonel Charles Whittlesey.
She maintained this position until the westward march of civilization had left her far in the rear; and then the garrison which the vast army of pioneers left here found in the coal and iron under their very feet a Fortunatus's purse.
The pioneers of '48 were old and their bright world a memory.
Aside from the natural distortion of a boy's imagination I am quite sure that the pioneers of 1860 still retained something broad and fine in their action, something a boy might honorably imitate.
In this department of craniometry, Anders Retzius has gained the foremost place among the pioneers of research.
These may be considered the pioneers of the movement for reform.
Durer may be mentioned as pioneersin such researches.
Here Clarke was joined by Simon Kenton, one of the boldest pioneers of the west, then a young man of twenty-two years.
After all that I had read of the way in which the early pioneers had been held up for weeks by head winds between the Dalles and the Cascades, there was no excuse for my failure to keep a weather eye lifting at so treacherous a point.
It is only the children and grandchildren of the living pioneers of the Columbia who will see more than the beginning of its untold millions of horse-power broken to harness.
When this stigma has been wiped out by reclamation (as it soon will be), without a doubt the plucky pioneers of the upper Columbia will see in their river many beauties that escape their troubled eyes to-day.
The pioneers of Illinois brought with them the same rigid notions of honesty which their environment maintained.
The perils and adventures through which the young pioneers went to obtain their brides furnish forth thousands of tales by Western firesides.
A few scattered and vagrant lodges of Pottawatomies and Kickapoos were all the pioneers of Sangamon and the neighboring counties ever met.
As only two dollars was paid for killing a wolf, it is easy to see how the pioneers regarded the forest folk in point of relative noxiousness.
The survivors of the pioneers stoutly insist upon the contrary view.
The men of cultivation wielded an influence in the Legislature entirely out of proportion to their numbers, as the ruder sort of pioneers were naturally in a large majority.
He helped the pioneers with his advice, and defended the families of the men who went out and fought in the historic battles.
Only the hardiest of the pioneers could endure long hours in such cold water.
While Washington and his little armies were waging the War for Independence along the eastern coast, Daniel Boone and his pioneers were fighting just as bravely for their country.
Deer, buffalo, and other animals often came there to lick up the salt, and pioneers often hid near by and shot them.
To Colonel George Rogers Clark and his sturdy pioneers this easy campaign so far seemed like a pleasure excursion.
Not long after Clarkâs arrival, the pioneers joined together and sent him and another man back to Virginia to see if they could have Kentucky adopted as a county of that state.
Yes, we followed the original trail of the Pioneers but, of course, there had been changes.
And like the latter were the Pioneers who preceded us along our way.
Of course the great body of our materials, the Greek classics, lay before him; the pioneers of modern German philology such as Wolf, Hermann, K.
He is still remembered in Kentucky as one of the worthiest pioneers of that state.
Their whaling trips brought back knowledge of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Group, and, following exactly the methods of British colonisation, American missionaries were the pioneers of American nationalisation.
In 1825 a Company was formed in London to colonise New Zealand, and it sent away a band of pioneers in the ship Rosanna.
Many chapters might be devoted to this fascinating subject, and many thrilling stories related about the pioneers and martyrs of the Cause, but a very brief summary must surface.
In later times, Darwin and the pioneersof modern geology were vehemently denounced for daring to dispute the teaching of Holy Write that the world was made in six days, and less than six thousand years ago!
On the other hand, Hawke's fleet of twenty ships of the line with fourteen thousand men, which defeated the French in November 1759, kept the Bay of Biscay for four months in the most perfect health.
Their request was granted, and his performances aided in no small degree to cheer the noble band of pioneers in their long voyage of eleven weeks, in a miserable hulk, across the Atlantic.
A few probably followed the course of the Savannah River, and made their homes in that region; but the people brought over by Oglethorpe were not of the stuff that pioneers are made of.
It was due to the desperate stand taken by these hardy pioneersthat Georgia continued the struggle for American independence.
The Brothers were not merely pioneers of elementary education, they may also be regarded (as M.
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