Glynn Sharp Bennion: Rancher, Historian, and Man of the Desert (Vernon, Utah, early-mid 1900s)

Glynn Sharp Bennion (1892-1984) was the son of Bishop Israel Bennion and Jeannette, and the brother of Captain Mervyn S. Bennion. He was a rancher, writer, and historian who, with his wife Lucile Cannon Bennion, responded with similar fervor to their dreams of pioneering and colonizing the western desert. He took up and ran a series of ranches, moving farther and farther west, and spent his later years writing historical articles drawn from the files of the Church Historian's Office, including a fine study of Brigham Young and Jim Bridger. His wife wrote that he was 'all the time gaining in ability to see, to analyse and to express with conviction the wonderful things he finds in the files of the Historian's Office.' His life is a faith-promoting witness of those who love the desert and the Lord's unfolding work alike, and who consecrate both the plow and the pen to the memory of the Saints.