Egan Experiences: “Coyote in Chicken House” . At Deep Creek we had a large chicken house built of logs, the door of which faced the kitchen door, and about forty feet from it, and on the west side of the yard that was formed, which was about sixty feet square. The stables were on the […]
Egan Experiences: “Eating Ants” . When I lived at Deep Creek I had occasion to send some men and teams south to -what we called “Fifteen Mile Canyon” to get some saw logs down to the loading place. They were to stay there till Saturday, then come home with a couple of loads. When they had […]
Egan Experiences: “Father’s Indian Doctor” . While Father was out west on the mail line one hot spring-like day before the snow had melted, he had his eyes burned so bad that he was completely blinded and could not stand the least bit of light, and although he kept them bandaged with dead tea leaves, […]
Egan Experiences: “The Indian, No Legs” . On my way to Fish Springs with supplies for the station I staid over night at Simpson’s Springs. It was there that I first heard of the “Indian no legs.” The boys said, he had left there yesterday morning to cross the desert to DugWayMountains, and said they […]
Egan Experiences: “The Old Man Left To Die” . There is a little spring of very brackish and warm water about a mile north of Fish Spring station and a few rods below the road. Between this spring and the road the Indians had selected as the place to leave a very old man to […]
Mormon Crickets: Food for Indians . The Mormon cricket, Anabrus simplex (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), was an important insect food of the Indians, all over the West. It is not really a cricket, being more closely related to katydids. It is a large insect, about two inches in length, wingless, and it travels in large, dense bands. […]
Pony Express Stations in Perspective . Overview . The demise of the Pony Express and the Overland Mail Service marked the end of an era in western history. The physical remains of both services are extant on public lands in western Utah and are being preserved, interpreted and continually studied. Over the past few years, […]
Quick Links
Pioneering The West
Major Howard Egan’s journals, printed as “Pioneering the West,” are available from:
Books & Things
2373 W. 700 S.
Springville, UT 84663
801-489-4150
DVD of the 200th Celebrations
The DVD of the 200th Celebrations includes 20 min of historical highlights of Howard Egan’s life and 20 min of highlights of the 200th Celebrations.
Copies of version 2 are available at below our actual costs.
PRICE: $15 for the video and $2 for postage, for a total of $17/ea.
Send your check or money order, payable to “Major Howard Egan Family Foundation” and mail to: 27581 Lost Trail Dr., Laguna Hills, CA 92653.
Click– HERE to watch the DVD.
Biography of Howard Egan
The complete 619 page biography of Major Howard Egan, written by historian William G. Hartley, is available through Amazon.com.
You can also purchase copies at a discount directly from the publisher:
publisher website: HowardEganBiography.com
For more information about this Biography: https://howardeganbook.com.bluecairnmedia.com
Fifteen separate Family Activity Packets were created by Candee Robinson for the Egan Celebrations. Each packet highlights 1 of 15 significant life events experienced by Major Howard Egan.
We encourage you to get together as a family, perhaps once a week, and have a family evening learning about the life and times of Major Howard Egan.
Everything is provided in each Activity Packet to make it a fun, fact-filled, activity-based, family event.
You can even use the PowerPoint file and show the packet materials on a computer or television screen.
Start and end with the included songs that are based on the week’s theme; have one family member share the Egan History Highlights; another family member supervise the Egan Activities and/or games; and someone else make the theme-based refreshments. Your family will bond closer, as you learn about and come to value your roots.
Click–HERE for a directory of all 15 Egan Family Activity Packets.
