Untitled [An interesting personality ... John Nelson] Johnston, Jeremy Christianson, Frank Seefeldt, Douglas, 1964- This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation. 2017 William F. Cody Archive University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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Untitled [An interesting personality ... John Nelson] Star London, England May 20, 1892 Untitled [Of all the annual exhibitions ... John Y. Nelson] Woman May 11, 1892 wfc.nsp12138 McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Collection, MS6 MS6.3778.017.02 (1892 London)

Texts Newspapers Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain American frontier American Indians Drawings and graphics Exhibitions Indians of North America Historical reenactments Mormon pioneers Mormons Overland Trails Scrapbooks Sioux Nation Stagecoaches Traveling exhibitions Wagon trains Nelson, John Young, 1826-1903 Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 Earl's Court (London, England) London (England) Weakly, Laura K. Initial encoding Clark, L. Christianson, Frank Hanna, S. Proofreading Clark, L. Transcription

An interesting personality in Buffalo Bill's Wild West coach, says Woman, is John Nelson who carelessly sits on the top of the Deadwood coach and fires on the attack of Indians. This quiet-looking old man led one of the most adventurous lives of any on the Western frontier. He it was who guided Brigham Young and the first detachment of the Mormon colony across the plains to Utah. Driven from Illinois, the Apostle and his followers were making their way as best they could towards the Promised Land, which he vaguely assured them lay somewhere in the West among the mountains, when one day a strange figure rode into their camp. This was Nelson, who had been living for some years with a tribe of the Sioux. Young, in despair of finding the Promised Land at all, enlisted his services as guide. How successful those services were is now a matter of history.