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Show coaches . Passengers who desired quicker and bet t e:r· t ransit than was afforded by t he emi gra tion trains and caravans got it a s • did Horace Gree l ey in his memorable trip from the East to the Pa ci f ic coast . For the benefit of persons desiring to reflect upon past conditions in Utah and cont r ast them wit h the present t he "Newsn to day publishes t he f ollowing highly interesting reminiscences of Pony Express and stage coach tra ve l . Dr . Henry J . Faust f rom whom the dcata for t his a rticle was principally obtained was born i n Prussia , near Bingen on t he Rhine sixty- four years ago . While not an actual Pioneer he knows much of Pioneer customs a nd ha rds h i ps . He came of sturdy stock and has had more experience in f ifty years o f his life than many persons who mi ght live t o be a hundred. \iVhen 6 years of' age he came to t he United St a tes wit h his pdrents vv ho settled i n Mis s ouri . Within a mon t h after t he ir a rrival in t his country the fa ther sickened and d ied leaving t he fami l y in a strange land , without a l(nowledge of t he l angua ge and with but little means . As a young boy Henry l ea rned the saddler's tra de . Later ·he studied medicine and vvhi l e at school his health broke down and he ca me west . He went to California and under the magic spell, of tha t day engaged in mining . He did not make a fort 'J.ne out of it or be come a millionaire , but saved enough to be come one of the proprietors of Bartholomew ' s Circus , which soon after ceased to exi s t . At Los Ange l es he conc l uded to return to Missouri . He r eac hed Fillmore , Utah , May 1 2, 1856 , t he year after the devastating gr asshopper wa r . • From t ha t day till this he ha s been a citi ze n of Utah , and in conversation with a "Ne vvs" man t his week he said, "I ' ve nev er been sorry of' it for a single minute . n Burned Brick and Bad Indians "Tha t very year , n said he , "I burned the f i r st brick ever burned in Utah . That was at Fillmore in June after my arriva l in May . Some time after I cast my lot with the Latter- day Saints and ma rried . In 185 ? I went to carrying mail to the Pacific Coa st . It happened in this way : The ma i l carr ier oe f or e me got i nto trouble with the I nd ia ns . His route was via the Muddy through southern Utah . At Fillmore we learned that the Indians we~e going to scalp hi m. And so another driver was put on and I was selected as the victim. I hdd two passengers with me and on reaching the ~Muddy we found a bout two hundred Indians drawn up in battle array with their war paint on . One of my passengers was a Scotchma n , the only countryman of Bobby Burns I ever saw who was a coward . When he saw the red skins and heard them whoop , he was nea rly sca red to death and shook like an ore-jigging ma chine . The ot her chap v:;a s a scienti fi c German- -a re gul a r bugea t ing Dutchman who chased insects clear a cross the desert to Californ ia . I knew some of the Indians and some of them knew me . They were grea tly disappointed when the driver whose scalp they were aft er did not appear on the scene and they were not slow to ma ke their • anger manifest . But I put on a bold fa ce, unhitched ·, y mules r or grass and said , "Puddivv i nnn to t he chief which mean s , "hea rd them. " This c hief was kn·own a s Captain Jackson a nd was a |
