Show PIONEER reminiscences PARK idaho march 80 1897 reading beading in 10 a recent issue or of your valuable paper pa per ta aletter letter written by nay my dear father ethe late thomas thoma bullock many years yean agos ago I 1 thought I 1 would write a few or of my recollections of bingo seen n and heard board by me in the early day of the church charon it if you deem my letter worthy of space apace in your paper I 1 remember my amy father taking my mother my brothers bro ibera and myself up into tle the tower of our oar beautiful temple in nauvoo and I 1 atoo also recall the grand swim presented to our view in all 11 II dire directions clione from me be temple I 1 have a vivid of leaving our comfortable homes homei the mississippi river inobe in abe winter of aud and the miraculous power of the lord in behalf of hit people in sending the quails in much dumben to us as in our starving condition whereby we were fed ad in me be wilderness of iowa as a israel ot of old although I 1 was wae only between 4 and 6 5 years yean of ef age thong beo the mad ead and sorrowing borrowing scones 1 I beheld in then daak long loag on in gone are as clear in my mind as an if the events had trao transpired but yesterday three dearly beloved members ot of our family viz my mother a father richard rushton who when in england owned a 8 large silk bilk factory my baby brother willard richards richard and my mothers mother hied the buffe rinze or of taase times the morning that the abe quails came my father asked one of the largest lort lert in camp with us that was waa after the drafting of the mormon battalion to take his gun and try and kill some tor for he had hardly got out of eight when the quails came to the camp where the saints sainta were located and one of the birds lighted on a tea tray by my fa fat berd therla side aide my brother caught it and as many aa we needed the birds were so BO tame that they ran into and under the wagons and around our feet until all the people caught as many as aa they hey could keep when the quails aroma in a body and flow flaw in the direction we bad to travel and were seen ahead of the train rain for three days the boy who went to shoot some returned without seeing any I 1 do not know hla his name out be way may be still living in starting out on the long burney l arney across the plains and on the way to these theae valleys of the mountains mountain a happier people were never found than wat bat noble band of pioneers my father was waa one of the pioneers and came back lor for his family the nex year one evening when we were camped anti and had lust just turned all the animals loose we heard board a terrific noise when one of the brethren cried out god help ui there is a stampede of boffilo coming straight toward nall I ln in the mob meu got their go as an aud and facing the maddened herd one of toe the brethren shouted firel ali ail aborting at once some borne of the leaders of the herd were killed and the wild beasts divided in two mad and passed us as to in their maddened race without doing any ot of us injury the ground was literally plowed up by too hosts hoefs of that herd quicker than I 1 write this the feeling of 01 terror error truck struck a good many in the be camp to in a way that cannot be do de ascribed scribed orl bed our animals animal stampeded tamp eded with the ibe herd bard but were all found again next morning four or five miles mile from clamp toe the people all joined in praising ane be lord for or his protecting care over us on reaching the old fort in gait bait biake ake city the feeling of joy was waa such that only true latter day sainte ORD oan know my lather father was wag with our beloved leaders in the church when they boy planted the stare stan and stripes the honored flag of our country on ensign peak HO hewak was aleo with them when they hey laid the corner istenes of the salt bait lake temple I 1 stood by bin ade side when he was wac giving his hia design for or be pioneer ban banner oer to she he painter 1 I do dont keow kaow the painter 94 name bame with a 11 request to paint a 01 of be prophet joeph and the angel who barrite on the scroll then wade the names of all the pioneers Plon eera are said aid to be written my father was wag the first banker to in utah he helped brother john bay to 10 coin the gold the bank safe was waa a small mall square quare iron box which any trog MSG maa could have bare run away with buit bui there here were wen no loan lean of that in hose booe dausse there were no burglars father had bad the full confidence ol of our beloved leader president brigham young after being a banker father worked forked for the NEWS I 1 helped him there lie he would say bay sometimes my girl giri now the devils coming or meaning the errand boy who would usually have a roll of proof with him I 1 would have to read for one or two hours following copy 93 while father corrected sail and prepared the proofs to got get the type correct for printing I 1 often went arrau dl to and from the old council house bishop elward hunter office and the his hii turiana fis office and was waa proud to help rattier all I 1 could my mother to la till still living and in her year but Is i very feeble my pioneer bro brother theis thomas thomaa H bullock and charles B R bullock are near enough to lo salt lake city to be at the tb coming jubilee the surviving members member of the mormon battalion should I 1 think have equal honora with the pioneers an a they hey would have come to in with pio pie nears deer if it bad not been for the call of our country on them to take up urine arm in defense of our country aud aad they crossed the rocky mountains that you year anyway PAMELA BULLOCK MASON |