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Wise Men Raised Up Week 11
Where is the Hand of the Lord?
Christopher "Kit" Carson
The Wild West
Episode 1
Kit Carson
What can we learn from the stories of a frontiersman?
Openers
D&C 26:1
Scripture
Behold, I say unto you that you shall let your time be devoted to the studying of the scriptures, and to preaching, and to confirming the church at Colesville, and to performing your labors on the land, such as is required, until after you shall go to the west to hold the next conference; and then it shall be made known what you shall do.
What Won the West?
Quotation
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
- Wallace Stegner
Kit Carson's Adventures
Born 1809--Died 1868
Page 139
The History
Page 143
Pages 144-145
Page 146
Ten Fun Facts
Madison is awesome. Dolley is even better.
Then vs. Now
How it Really Was
Be grateful for what you have.
Others were not so lucky.
Episode 2
Openers
Scenes from the West
https://allthatsinteresting.com/american-frontier
Scenes
https://allthatsinteresting.com/american-frontier
Letters from the Frontier
http://heritage.uen.org/journals/Wcc4aea7fca4b2.shtml
Letters
https://www.brodheadhistory.org/a-frontier-letter-home-1840/
https://santafe.com/distant-voice-a-letter-from-fort-sumner-new-mexico-1864/
John C. Fremont
The business end of opening the western US.
Episode 3
Expeditions and roadbuilding
It's all well and good to explore, but what if you don't tell anyone what you find?
Openers
Isaiah 2:2
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Scripture
Destiny
Quotation
"We will till the desert till it blossoms like a rose. We will plant fields of grain, for that crop will give us substance of life and barter for our other necessities of life."
"From the canyons and the mountains they will furnish us with timber and rock to build our temples, our ward houses and homes, we will tame and use this wilderness, but discretion must be used, for it must also supply and furnish our posterity and generations to follow with that same substance."
--Brigham Young
Opening the West
Someone has to go first.
Born: 1813--Died: 1890
Fremont's Expeditions
Married Jessie Benton in 1841 (eloped)
Five Expeditions from 1842 to 1854
Claimed California for the US--first US Senator
1856 Presidential candidate (lost to Buchanan)
Opponent of slavery--cost him the election
Jessie Benton Fremont
"I thought as many others do, that Jessie Benton Fremont
was the better man of the two."--critic
Writer, adviser, transcriber, symbol of equality
Give 'em Jessie
Give 'em Jessie
Forgotten Explorers
Someone goes first, but it's a big world out there. It goes better with a group.
Episode 4
Creating the American West
Is the story of progress one or two heroes, or many people working together?
Openers
Alma 37:6
By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.
Scripture
Little by Little
Quotation
“Our lives are made up of little, simple circumstances that amount to a great deal when they are brought together, and sum up the whole life of the man or woman.”
--Brigham Young
People You Never Heard Of
Etienne Provot
Col. James Bridger
Forgotten men
Jedediah Smith
Zebulon Montgomery Pike