I challenge anyone with a love of Americana in their veins to read this book. This book captures what the melting pot of America truly wanted as they settled the west, a plot of land and the freedom to worship God as they pleased without fear of retribution. Here is a group of people who challenged the elements and the times to grasp the iron rod and achieve their goal in the end.
Robert O. Day weaves magic into the history of these pioneers with finesse and historical accuracy. His book "The Enoch Train Pioneers", allows you to not only read the history, but also the stories and journal entries of how they felt . A must read book for anyone interested in pioneer history.
This book contains one small, but highly significant account, of a shipload of 534 gathering Saints from Liverpool, England. They were for the most part very ordinary people, poor in financial means, but burning with the hope that comes with finding the purpose of life, and having the faith to do whatever is asked to help build the restored Kingdom of God on the earth. They were unique as pioneers, as they had responded to the unusual directions of a prophet to be the first to gather by handcart across the frontiers of America to Zion in Utah Territory. The Saints that were passengers on the sailing ship Enoch Train, made up all of the first handcart company and most of the second. The balance of the later company being filled by some Saints from the sailing ship Samuel S. Curling. Their journey lasted 188 days from Liverpool, England to Salt Lake City.
There is as great a need as ever to put a shoulder to the wheel and do our part, and a source of great spiritual energy can be found in learning of the trials and triumphs of our ancestors, the early pioneers. The men and women who lived this page in the Book of Eternity, have all now graduated from the cares of mortality, taking with them the lessons of this life as a guide for living in eternity. It is my hope that those who read these pages may understand and cherish what these early Saints endured to provide their posterity with a hope for the future and a blessing of freedom.
About the Author
Robert O. Day is a retired professor of communication and theatre from East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City Tennessee. During his 30+ year career in higher education at Brigham Young University, Southern Illinois University and East Tennessee State University he coached college and high school forensic/debate tournament competition, as well as serving as director and coach. Robert is a master storyteller who helped organize the Jonesborough Storytelling festival and still shares his skills as he travels for BookPals (sponsored by SAG) telling stories in the public schools. He is a notable public speaker and presenter, and has written, directed and starred in a 30 part educational television series on oral language arts (E.O.L.A.).
An author of over two dozen books; twenty-five childrens stories, six dozen plays and readers theatre scripts; numerous poems and choral speaking arrangements, his most writing was The Mormon Battalion, The Lords Faithful. Since his retirement, he and his wife have served a stake mission, three Church Service missions, one at the Museum of Church History and Art, where he wrote and directed two new Church historical chamber theatres, Nine Blasts of the Cannon and The Enoch Train Pioneers, Gathering to Zion.
With his dear wife, they have been blessed with eight children, eighteen grandchildren and one great grandchild, who are the inspiration for their writing and artwork. Active genealogists, they are working on some children's pioneer stories. Both are currently serving as BookPals, through the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, expanding the arts in the schools by bringing good literature alive through books and storytelling.
Linda Weaver Day is an Early Childhood Educator and former director of a large day care. She too is an autho, having written The Teacher's Craft File and F.B. and The Gang. Linda is also an accomplished illustrator having several books for her husband as well as for other authors. She has been a regional, state and district instructor in everything from puppetry, arts and crafts, CDA accreditation, Family History, storytelling, etc.
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