{"id":19428,"date":"2021-11-19T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/american-moses-brigham-young\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:30:00","slug":"american-moses-brigham-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/american-moses-brigham-young\/","title":{"rendered":"American Moses: Brigham Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AovTvxJoKOY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Brigham Young was a man of his time. His courage, leadership, management, and determination were exactly what the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints required in their hour of need. He guided them down what is now known as the &#8220;Mormon Trail&#8221; and firmly established a permanent outside the United States in the Utah Territory.<\/p>\n<p>This Sharps pistol-carbine (or pistol-rifle) belonging to LDS Patriarch Brigham Young is an fantastic piece of collecting history. It&#8217;s a short-lived production model that is a significant departure from other plains longarms of the period. The Sharps is small, comes significantly embellished as a factory custom order, and utilizes unusual ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do those features make it an unusual choice of arm for Young, but also a rare and desirable collectible today with a significant historical provenance.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigham Young was a man of his time. His courage, leadership, management, and determination were exactly what the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints required in their hour of need. He guided them down what is now known as the &#8220;Mormon Trail&#8221; and firmly established a permanent outside the United States in the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/american-moses-brigham-young\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Moses: Brigham Young<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":19429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}