36 CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
been put before those who care to read 
it. But entirely aside from the subject 
of polygamy, which has so completely 
obscured every other point about these 
people, they have one characteristic 
which is seldom heard of in connection 
with them and their wanderings in the 
Western wilderness. I refer to their 
building up of new countries. They 
have no peer in pioneering among the 
Caucasian races. They are so far ahead 
of the Gentiles in organized and discrimi¬ 
nating, businesslike colonization, that the 
latter are not close enough to them to per¬ 
mit a comparison that would show their 
inferiority. Of course they (the Mor¬ 
mons) see in their belief an ample expla¬ 
nation for this excellence ; it is far more 
probable, however, as I look at it from 
my Gentile point of view, that it is due 
