500 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK, 



With fool hard in ess, but also with desperation, with 

 dauntless effrontery, with infinite pluck, they defied 

 the United States and her army, using the tiny hand- 

 ful of Mormon soldiery in a way that makes one's 

 mind run back to the story of Thermopylae. 



Such was the blood that settled Ogden. 



It was such inhabitants that Brigham Young, in 

 1850, advdsed to ''put up good dwellings, open good 

 schools, erect a meeting-house, cultivate gardens, and 

 pay especial care to fruit raising,'' so that Ogden might 

 become a permanent settlement and the headquarters 

 for the Mormons in the northern portion of the Terri- 

 tory. 



So well was his advice carried out that in 1851 the 

 city was " made a stake of Zion," divided into wards, 

 and incorporated by act of legislature. 



From the very first, everything connected with the 

 city seemed to have a spice and dash about it. 



Away back in 1540, Father Juan de Padilla and his 

 patron, Pedro de Tobar, went on an exploring expedi- 

 tion. On his return the priest spoke of a large and 

 interesting river he had found in that " Great Un- 

 known," the Northwest. 



The account so fired the hearts of his brother Span- 

 iards that Captain Garcia Lopaz de Cardenas was sent 

 to explore further into that wonderland. He returned 

 telling of immense gulches, of rocky battlements, and 

 of mountains surrounding a great body of water. 

 Many believe that in that far distant time, about the 

 time that Elizabeth ascended the throne of England, 

 before Raleigh had done himself the honor of his dis- 



