Ben Perkins
A fellow pioneer who worked alongside Samuel Rowley during the Hole-in-the-Rock expedition, helping to blast and chisel a passage through the cliff so wagons could be lowered into the canyon below.
How we know
Every fact about Ben Perkins, with where it came from. Your word always outranks a re-scan.
Real photo
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Family
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FamilySearch
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What makes Ben Perkins
The locked visual details the illustrator matches on every page. Edits save here (the source of truth) and flow to every book Ben Perkins appears in.
The canonical likeness
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A fellow pioneer who worked alongside Samuel Rowley during the Hole-in-the-Rock expedition, helping to blast and chisel a passage through the cliff so wagons could be lowered into the canyon below.
Life stages
The same Ben Perkins at every age they appear in the series. Draw a stage to age it from the canonical likeness, or pin a real photo to the stage it actually shows — even an old one — and the younger stages age down from it. Give each stage an outfit (clothes are era and station — a boy in England dresses nothing like a father in Utah) and every page at that age keeps it. Lock a stage once it's right so it's never redrawn. Each is generated once and reused across every book.
Books featuring Ben Perkins
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