| OCR Text |
Show INTRODUCTION '1'0& long have Americans a of kal.eidoscopic assortment aa "The men Oregon Territory" like Daniel impelling "The or ment of Jim Bridger, soul-stirring of tfManitest Destiny f tJ the brief or cry of "Gold I" of laughter, daily of romantioised. Mississippi ValleT,·J 'Fight," The true story actually is tears and. western colonization in terms of boundlessly bountiful land in slabs such Boone, Buffalo Bill, and "Fifty-four-torty slogans I but or aocepted pain and At human lite. comfort, - of one of the frustration and a.chieve sueb is the true lea.st, bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of called. l(orntOns, It is som.ething else again. story of the Latter-day Saints - the mem people. who moved act"Oss the central p;at Qf th,e United. States in the mid-1SOO 's .. As do most although, in large tQ cultivate it migrants, they carried with melusure tul.ly. under the press ot wa.s they knew ot art, Circumstance, tbey taUed Good music was less vital o them than was, straight furrow; literature home; and when there them what took seeond time place to " a sturdy wagon and again tor literature and music, each a warm emerged only from those art forms whioh had been retained. from the middle level. ot New England and ndd""rweste.t'n soei$ty. Distance and out-side interests to take their toll of Homon artistic S$1l6ibility. Not all Mormons were unaware of the need to with good painting, good music, or: good reading. 1 were modify their daily work Reading was a command of |
