{"collection":"mor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/tfd/foreword.htm","path":"mor/tfd/foreword.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/mor/tfd/foreword.htm","text":"This book is neither a History nor a Topography of the Territory \nof Utah in the early seventies of the last century. The volume is due to the experiences \nof an outsider who tried to be impartial in his views and sympathies. The personal \nnote, of course, rings in this record of those past days. No onslaught is made on \nthe \"wild and woolly\" west, nor on the eccentric religion of the majority of the \npeople.\nThrough much peril and privation, the wild wastes of the Territory had been occupied \nby a people whose hard toil had redeemed the desert. The picture of life presented \nin these pages is in accord with the facts, the only changes made are in the names \nof some of the characters.","title":"Foreword","type":"page"}