M tk first ol of a S saries r as ol of shells S of plo pio users beers cog of 0 cachu B of cf the burney from winter quarters to the iley of tile tha great salt laks lake simpson al molen iolen the su subject j L this his eseteb w was bosn boin in jackei ville villa morgan county 1111 illinois DOis he fourteenth day of 1 L ile he was one of the n children born to jessie and T urany arany Ruf fiker molen who vl ie simpson was still a were mere c ca d J linked their fortunes with t hurch of jesus christ of lati day saints and gathered with t main body of their people then I 1 i ed at al Nati narvoo illinois ere tile the colens remained un bommen with thousands of r saints they were driven out he ha heartless moll mob and forced to to shelter from the rugged blasts vi TI inter tote r with the red man mail of the ti aness their property when ti d to flee was worth i 2000 11 ll they could obtain for it was tw oke 0 butle and an old wa in the te spring of 1847 they it it tei the main maia of saints at i ter iier quarters and ana with them c fenced their long and weary ey across the liaina and anil it in m LII ill four our months la later a chev jhc they id n in ill the tl valie att Kf alf the gp A S f bjor ii 11 he le western part or of chaj laws has p v grown to t be salt lake cit city y ri speaking of this thia pil grimage lmh engli the then unexplored 1 v a 3 i of arnerich Ai Ar Tierica mr molen apolen save gays e left council bluffs on our lu oey to the west on the first of I 1 ly 1847 we traveled in jee fl 0 h M grants company will wili a snows fifty and S D I 1 huffak ten tea our outfit consisted of voke of cattle and three wagon w h were ware supposed eup posed to contain ning hing and provisions t to last our i ly ily of fourteen for at least A i y r and a half besides our bid bi d d v our household furniture pad I 1 arming implements pon poll leavin leaving elk horn icorn river w aund our ourselves pelves in the indians n deit dest dei t country and in order to T v act ct ourselves we trave traveled leil and c v ped each night as eloff ly as aa p ibis together and there being wagons wagons in the pompa oy y the 4 1 wagons were often late lale in rett gett into camp and late the next v t ning n wf in gotting gotti ig At started arted again cattle all together they t hird hard to find and and sanarate esi sAn arat arate e he mornings and we seemed to b 1 polling gatting coustant constantly ly in each T T rs W dav v fter after being 2 out about two weeks ui videl up into companies houi panics of 11 ui and found we could get started indich earlier in ia the mornings and COB cn equen lly inake longer drives I 1 member well when we got into tu thickest of the buffalo coun tr lr the very hille hill valleys a 9 plains deemed alive with them I 1 as a wild and beautiful si eight bt sr sil passing pas sirim all to tee kee botis of these 2 and animals stampeding and it ua d to give our cattle and horses t te ie earue spirit for itley aney too would frequently atam abtam 1 ii de and cause no end of trouble of course we always had watch lu ill in n around the corrals at night but at times they were power powerless 3 J 1 I remember the stock made a break on oil night knocked down and broke up op wo wagons wagon and fled to tb the hills we were along a long time arti experienced great difficulty in withering 4 them up again and inasy of thern were never found it was not uncommon for our arii illais to get ga frightened ut lit the smallest kind of a disturbance and then the whole train would stampede while on the road shaking shingi up in grand style and giving us the greatel grea teet batise cause for alarm and apprehension while we were exer exerting tina every faculty a and d aver power we had t to 0 gt get them dundr control again what with the cattle lost in in stampedes stampede and those that did dia or of poison in the B lack black hills at ai d on sweetwater we were so reduced as to be under the necessity of yoking up our cows and young stock withstand Kot mg we passed several tribes of indians who were on the warpath karpath war path we escaped any aeeti oua one trouble with them by feeding them thein and giving theal ammini tion until it we mot mft president brig harn hana young with will the advance corn coin party pany of pioneers somewhere abere on S sweetwater w we camped together that night and listened late tri tn the councils of our president and the encourage encouraging ing words lie he spoke to u he ha told us to 10 practice the strictest economy and to take every pro caution necessary for our protection from the indians after ret trier rid the rAd skins attacked us and drove off a number of our cattle arld and the next morning we lye found great difficulty in getting enough animals to move on with in the latter part of september we reached salt late lae weighed up our provisions which were biere extremely low ond and placed ouri ourselves elve on ra tion eions s so that in the following spring t we werd wera like dishop bishop blunt ors erg s sheep hep in that it took three of us to make maka a shadow