The Pioneer Spirit The Pioneer Spirit that mastered things And Broke the virgin sod, That conquered savages and kings, And only bowed to God. The Strength of mind and strength of soul— The will to do or die, That sets its heart upon a goal, And made it far or high— —Clarence Hawkes...

Biographical sketch of Orville Southerland Cox, Pioneer of 1847, partly from a sketch written by Adelia B. Cox Sidwell for the "Daughters of the Pioneers", Manti, Utah, 1913. Orville S. Cox, was born in Plymouth, N.Y. November 25, 1814. He was one of a family of 12 children, ten of whom reached maturity. His father died when he was about fifteen years old. And he was then "bound out"; apprenticed to learn the trade of a blacksmith under a deacon Jones, who was considered an excellent man as he w