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Excerpt: "All through his life, Rasmus’s hands were callused thick, just through the center, from handling the rope. One night after work, a man came over and said, “You think you’re pretty damn good with that rope, don’t you?"..." [more.]

Excerpt: "Tennie Thompson came to America from Denmark when she was thirteen. She lived by the railroad tracks in Brigham City for two years with a midwife to pay back her forty-dollar immigration fee..." [more.]

By Dorothy Firth

Excerpt: “The early travelers going to California left Brigham and traveled north to the Hampton Ferry near Fielding, now known as the Hampton Bridge. Then south and west to the stagecoach relay station, which was run by Andy Lonesberry. This was located on the spring just east of Bothwell. This was the first white-man’s settlement in the valley in this time, 1861...”[more.]

By Tamera Newman

Description: Interview with Floyd and Beatrice Eggli
8 March 2002