Ardis E. Parshall: “My own ancestors were among the pioneers, although they didn’t reach the area until 1848.”
Some festivities acknowledge the arrival — later than the vanguard company but still the first of their nations — of people from around the world who have made Utah their home. And, at long last, many of these celebrations are tempered with the acknowledgment of the harms caused to the Ute, Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone, Navajo and other Native tribes displaced by these mostly white colonists.
I’m learning, however, that such was often not the case. Life was as tough elsewhere in the West as it was in Utah. Some who went out from us retained a sense of loyalty to Latter-day Saints, helping as they had opportunity. In some cases, the failure may have rested with those who stayed in Utah but did not welcome or assist the newcomers as well as they might, or should, have.
Frances Swan Clark came to Utah from Scotland via Nauvoo, Ill. A plural wife of apostle Heber C. Kimball, she buried their infant daughter in a refugee camp on the banks of the Mississippi as the Saints began their flight to the Great Basin. She came here in 1848 but soon left for California, marrying George Clark, a fellow drifter from Mormonism.
Some pioneers we could have done without. John G. Ambrose and Thomas W. Betts, two drifters who reached Salt Lake City in mid-October 1856, for instance, arrived in early winter snows, one astride a horse and the other on a mule, carrying nothing but the clothes on their backs — suggesting, perhaps, a hasty retreat from some Western outpost or overland company.
The Grimshaws did not know they were setting out across the Plains in the midst of a war between the Cheyenne and Sioux. Somewhere east of, they met merchants headed to Salt Lake City who brought grim news: Along with others, the two friends the Grimshaws had hoped to travel with had been slain. Eventually, accompanied by a regiment of U.S. Cavalry, the Grimshaws made their way to St. Louis.
Milnes and Mantle served in Washington during the same years. Did they know each other? Did they know that they shared a Utah past? I do not know, but clearly these two young men, two pioneers, took their ambitions and talents elsewhere when Utah turned out not to be the right place.
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