Saints Without Halos: Part 2 Settling the West

		Part 2. Settling the West
Gathering an official policy until mid-1880s		[51] The Mormon migration west continued for many years after 1846. By, wagon, handcart, and eventually railroad, Latter-day Saints continued to gather in the Great Basin. Until the mid-1880s, gathering was an official Church policy.
350 settlements established under Brigham Young		Even after gathering to Utah, the pioneering was far from over. To be sure, some immediately staked out a claim in the Salt Lake Valley, built a house, and within a year or two were settled for the rest of their lives. But others were called upon to uproot their families and head out for a new location in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, California, Wyoming, and eventually Mexico and Canada. The gospel ensign to the nations was intended to wave over North and South America and eventually the world, carried forth from a secure base in the Great Basin. Historian Milton R. Hunter listed 350 settlements established during Brigham Young's lifetime, and each of them was, for its settlers, a new exodus and a new beginning.
Woolley: bishop, pracitical with independent streak		The initial gathering place for this period was, of course, Salt Lake City. Among its most prominent leaders was Bishop Edwin D. Woolley, who presided over the Thirteenth Ward for twenty-seven years. A practical man with an independent streak, Bishop Woolley's primary concern was the temporal and spiritual welfare of his people. Occasionally he locked horns with Brigham Young and Eliza R. Snow, but they were able to work through their differences with some judicious give and take.		Edwin Woolley: Bishop of the Thirteenth Ward
Wakler: Salt of the earth Saint with a sense of humor		Charles Walker was a salt-of-the-earth Saint who responded to the colonizing call with a simple faith and an accepting heart, and who endured the deprivations of pioneering with an ebullient sense of humor.		Charles L. Walker: Sage of Saint George
Flake: heartache of plural marriage, hardships of pioneering		Lucy White Flake was born in the Church, in Illinois. She walked across the plains with her family and helped settle Lehi, Cedar City, and Beaver, Utah, then Allen's Camp and Snowflake, Arizona. Though her husband was not religious when they married, largely through her persistent efforts he eventually became one of the pillars of the Church in Arizona. Lucy's poignant autobiography reveals her heartache at plural marriage, and her alternate fortitude and depression through the hardships of pioneering.		Lucy White Flake: Pioneering Utah and Arizona
Bunker: United Order settlement		[52] Edward Bunker was a member of the Mormon Battalion and a missionary to England. He led a company of handcart pioneers across the plains, served as a bishop in Ogden and Santa Clara, Utah, and founded Bunkerville, Nevada. His experience with the Santa Clara and Bunkerville United Orders helps us appreciate the difficulties encountered by those who tried to implement the economic ideals inspired by the revelations of Joseph Smith.		Edward Bunker: Living the United Order
Redd: Incredible journey to southeastern Utah		Of all the colonizations attempted in the generation after Brigham Young, none was more grueling than settling the San Juan region of southeastern Utah. In fact, it is hard to imagine how any settlement, at any place or time, could have demanded more than this incredible journey down the Hole-in-the-Rock chute as told through the experience of the Lemuel H. Redd family.		Lemuel H. Redd: Down the Chute to San Juan
West: life and times in Brigham City		Chauncey West's 1895 diary gives us a view of the life and times of an extraordinary young man in Brigham City, Utah.
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