Comments on: Wilford Woodruff’s First Mission, part 2 (Graphic History)

By: Geoff J

Geoff J — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:43:31 +0000

“Heap thanks”

Classic.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:15:06 +0000

Steve is going to want Wilford to linger in Arkansas, while Bruce is going to want to pull him over the river to Tennessee. If only this were the worst controversy we ever saw on the blogs!

Hunter must have had something better to do in youth than watch melodramatic westerns. “Heap” is how TV Indians of the ’50s and ’60s talked. Your “thanks heaps” or “thanks a lot” is the right “translation.”

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:02:41 +0000

Bruce Crow: He’s got to get to Arkansas first. I can’t wait for that.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:49:16 +0000

Loved it. And I agree that the “to be continued” with the bear pursuing them is great.

(What’s “heap thanks”? Is it an old way of saying “thanks a heap” or “thanks heaps”?)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:44:06 +0000

That won’t be for another two months, Bruce — I think he reaches Memphis in, like, part 11 or 12. Oh, the anticipation!

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:33:17 +0000

Awesome. I can’t wait till he gets to Tennessee. OK, OK I have a one track mind.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:04:47 +0000

The “Woes of Wilford” are the new “Perils of Pauline.”

These cartoons are about 60 years old, Steve, which explains the use of the word “savages” (well, that and that’s the word used in WW’s 19th century autobiography).

Yeah, ellen, they’re true. I complain about my mission being a hard one, but the difficulties in France didn’t tend at all toward swamps and bears and camping with the Indians.

By: ellen

ellen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:05:36 +0000

had we known then what we were later to discover …

it’s amazing to realize that what sounds so much like fiction is absolutely real. unbelievable dedication and sacrifice.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:55:28 +0000

The plot thickens!

Savages?

By: JonW

JonW — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:11:48 +0000

interesting incident and the ending with the bear is just so classic of serial comics of that time. Great stuff.