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Show Seth Benjamin Tanner lOMyron Tanner Biography. Also James H. 309 McClintock, Mormon Settlement in Arizona, Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert (Phoenix, 1921), p. 47. llJoseph Smith Tanner, "Reminiscences." 12Louisa Maria Lyman letter to Amasa Jr., dated January 1, 1856. l3The brothers were Freeman, Joseph, and Dan. 14Brown's published journal Giant of the Lord gives much HOC. information on this expedition. 15Story told to Maurice J. Tanner, great D. Bushman, of Snowflake, Arizona in 1973. 16Brown, Giant of the Lord, p. 473. grandson of Seth B. Tanner, by Martin l7This was a sharp confrontation. Brown, Giant of the Lord, p. 478. The origi nal diary at BYU pinpoints the dispute even better. The author can understand how Brown came to think he was to have command of the entire Arizona Mission. See Brown's letter of appointment, Giant of the Lord, pp. 469-70. But a later letter to the Arizona Mission made it clear that Brown had charge of his expedition and not the pioneers sent to make the settlement. 18Brown, Giant of the Lord, pp. 478-79. 19Jesse N. Smith, The Journal of Jesse Nathaniel Smith, six Decades in the early West: Diaries and Papers of a Mormon Pioneer, 1834-1906, ed. by Oliver R. Smith, May 12, 1880. Wilford Woodruff Journal (microfilm HOC), May 5, 1880. 200avid E. Miller, Hole-in-the-Rock; An Epic in the Colonization of the Great (Salt Lake City, 1949). 1966 ed. pp. 20, 24, 30. Kopi are twin villages only a mile or two apart. Moen Kopi the original Hopi village and Tuba the whitemen's town. American West 2ITuba and Moen was 22Lot Smith moved to Tuba following the breakup of Sunset in 1886 or 1887. He was a controversial individual and nearly always involved in some heated dispute. Records of the two church trials are in many libraries; placed there in the main by the author who retains a copy. |
