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.  

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Historical Reference Books Used for Research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