Frontier History Minute

As Broadcast on YNOP - Your Network of Praise

Serving Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado & Utah



The six episodes in this section are focused on the life

of Father John Dyer.  His ministry took place in present day Colorado and New Mexico.  Rev. Dyer served as a Circuit Rider, famous for traveling on snow shoes, during the very early days of the Gold Rush in the Colorado Rockies!  John Dyer arrived at Pikes Peak, only months after the Colorado Territory had been established by Abraham Lincoln.


In addition, episodes 49 & 50 are at the bottom of this

page, and focus on Robert & Mary Craven, and their time in

the Colorado Territory, along with their move back to Montana.

More of their story can be heard in episodes 41 & 42 as well.   

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Historical Reference Books Used for Research


- Snow-Shoe Itinerant, An Autobiography of the Rev. John L. Dyer

Published for the author by Cranston & Stowe, 1890


Don Cummings Father John Dyer, Wesley Village, Wilmore, Kentucky

A Living History Presentation Published on YouTube


- Life of Rev. L.B. Stateler or Sixty-Five Years on the Frontier, by Rev. E.J. Stanley

Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South  1907


- When Wagon Trails Were Dim, by Paul M. Adams

Copyright, 1957, by Montana Conference Board of Education of The Methodist Church

Plus Two Episodes - The Robert & Mary Craven in Colorado

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