#utahterritory

[nateaz]

#OldHomesteads from our past and from the previous century still stand while clinging onto the past but the #Desert continues to carve away at them. I’ve seen some of these #frontier ruins collapse and whether away in my short lifetime. Photography is the only thing that still documents them and is the only way they will live on into our precious memories. Those that have come before us are now gone but certainly #notforgotten. Let’s not become so narcissistic and selfish that we forget the past and #whathappenedlongago! . #19thcentury #oldwest #wildwest #utahgram #utahfrontier #utahterritory #utecountry #southernpaiute #mormonsettlers #berylut #ironcounty (at Beryl, Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvZNv6Ol4vY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kmcw20n8u4uq

[pernettewellslove]

Kimberly Woodhouse's The Express Bride (Daughters of the Mayflower #9) was an excellent read. As the story suggests it is about the Pony Express. A young mother flees her home with her young daughter before her abusive husband can hurt her again and or their new daughter. A young woman, Jacqueline Rivers' father has died and she is running the Pony Express and stagecoach stop. "Jack" is fearful that since she is a woman that she will be replaced. Meanwhile, two mysterious strangers show up. One is looking for a missing girl, who would be a young woman in her twenties. The other man works for the government and is looking for a counterfeiter. A very informative book about the Pony Express and life in the Utah Territory. The Express Bride is historical Christian fiction and reads with ease, has good likable characters, and is an interesting book. I definitely recommend.