Show STORY OF THE JOURNEY OF THE TIiE UTAH TAH PIONEER Ii i w u lb Heroes and Heroines Un Uri Unknown Unknown known to Fame Who Vho Braved the Terrors of theA the A American merican Desert and Founded the First Inter Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain mountain Commonwealth HE celebration ot of tho ho rv of tile the ar at Ij rival of the tho Utah Pioneers in 1847 1347 can en enc iv 1 c never be bo wholly regarded as WI a merely set sec secular setular 11 1 ular function The religious aspect ot or It ItIs jj Is to so Intertwine twined with the tho history of or the tho event that any an account of or the latter necessarily arlly requites requires some mention of or the former It Is the tho writers writer Intention to treat the tho topic of or the jurney of ot the pioneers us liS commemorative of a state holiday merely and not notto to mention the religious ideas asso associated associated elated with that movement any ay an further than thai may bee lio necessary for tor tho the vitality and coherence of these brief brief observations Any apparent Intrusions refer reCer to religious zeal the tho or to peculiar faith In a 11 divine providence manifested by the pioneers Is duo duoto duoto duoto to the thee fact tact that these ideas assist HO so powerfully In 11 explaining the motives which Impelled them to their perilous Journey ORIGIN OK OJ TUB TH IDEA It Is 18 a Il common mistake to suppose as many nany do da that tho the Idea of ot transplanting the Mormon com community community com from Illinois and Iowa to Utah was wits original with Brigham Young The fact is that Joseph Smith was tho the first to conceive and nurture tho the conviction that tho the distant west went and not the east cost was to be the permanent abiding place pinto of ot tho the people POlle belonging to the tho Church which he had founded His HIli occasional references to the destined western horn homo hornof hom homot of ot his people had produced In the tho minds of a great grent many of at the leading men in the Church In n the days daa of ot Nauvoo Na oo the impression that Illinois was to bo only a II temporary gathering place and that westward was ns to continue continuo to be as It had uniformly been be before before I fore tore tho direction of at the movement which the body of at the people called Mormons must sooner or later take talc This feeling first created by the remarks of at atthe the Prophet continued to gain strength and consistency con consistency by the course of ot events till It Jt finally seems to have bavo become a II settled conviction In at the minds oC of tho the more discerning that the tho west was to bo he the tha true homo home of ot the people for tor a II long period and that these continued migrations of the tho Church were in hat some sense necessary to the tho life of ot the community Hyrum Smith In 1831 at Kirtland promised Lorenzo D Young who was very at nt the i time that he should recover r ecoy er and should go with the people to the Rocky Mountains The prediction was rate significant na ns showing what expectations were w re reIn in the minds of ot the leading men So Reber C KimbaLl l later d of Commerce o HI nt A very cry pretty place but t not a II long Lang abiding home bome for tor the J Joseph s lIli Smith himself clearly predicted the move movement ment westward when on Aug 6 1842 at lit Masonic hall In Montrose he declared that his people would continue to 10 suffer Butter much persecution and would bo he driven to the the Rocky Mountains Some of ot you ou will live to go g o and assist t In making settlements and build bul d cities and Md see tho the Saints become a Il mighty In n the midst of ot the Rocky no k Mountains Later Joseph took stops steps to plan this contemplated exodus of ot his people o from Nauvoo to these mountains by sending ng out a II select company of ot men to Investigate gate the tho tl o locations of at California and Oregon and hunt out a B good location where we can remove to toOn toOn toOn On the of pt the following March he ad addressed addressed dressed a 0 memorial to Congress asking for tor author authority fly ity It to raise a II company of ot men to open the thelast vast last regions of ot the west and Imd south to our enlightened and enterprising yeomanry The ob objective objective point of ot tho the route and some other matters ot of detail were outlined and on June 23 1844 1841 Just four Cour days s before he was WIlS slain Joseph Smith and others crossed the tho Mississippi to with the in intention Intention of starting for the Great basin in the Rocky Mountains But it was as left to others to carry out iv whAt hat he had conceived EXODUS NAUVOO The companies left lett Nauvoo In hat the tho winter under the command ot of Brigham Young wagons stopping to pitch tents lentil at the first ot of the tho Camps of at Israel upon snow and Ice They The renewed the Journey journe on the first day of March when they traveled five miles mileR and rested on Sugar Creek Permission lad had been obtained to cross crosa through Iowa The company was waR divided Into two parts and each ot of these theno Into hundreds hun hundreds hundreds fifties and tens with captains The prescribed for tor a Il family was WIlS one wagon three yoke of at cattle or three teams two cows tw two tL beef beet cattle three sheep 1000 1600 pounds of at Hour flour 21 24 pounds of ut sugar a n 1 tent and bedding seeds farming tools tool II and a n rifle rIlle the tho total being estimated at the value alue of Hut But HutIn Butin In addition to those which were thus thull equipped Col Kane i relates elates that there was WIH a 1 largo large number of ot non nondescript nondescript outfits the makeshifts of at poverty llover from tho time unsuitable heavy cart that lumbered on mysteriously mysterious with Its Ifs crazy trundle pulled along by a little holier helter und and riff god ged up only anI to drag some such ouch weight as liS a baby n II sack Rack of at meal or a n pick pack of ot clothes or o bedding Roads nond were bud bad most ot of tho the way woy and wagons wagon were breaking down so that tho the company considered It had hull mild made progress whenever It coy cov coveted CO t erect eted IO 1 G miles In a n 1 day 1111 Thu rho people p of ot Iowa Iown used need to tu tell that nil all al day long lOll longtime time the slow Mow Io procession paused passed over oer their theft m tho strangest spectacle they had Imd ever eer nud that they with the tho ton toll of or these theeo Nat Ni hut but I in zealous go goIng goIng Ing they thoy knew not whither l i lit hut with wItti cheerful confidence In a ait it i y 4 ti I JY f sty r f t ft their that tender us liS tin nu cl man to 10 Glees mid and In lu Inthe luthe the God of or their fathers to tl defend them UWIn on their journey through the unknown Into which they the were WIe entering What most tho the was lIa that the tho did slid not art to bo lie greatly out of or heart tires They lIe hod hut however the habit habitat of or stopping slopping on un high hll hi is cold and looking ln steadily Rh buck back buckIn In iii the tho direction where they lust JUKI looked upon thu the race roce rec ding vista vision or o 0 their bete temple and Its hll it gilt glit glittering At l night Hinging WI was usual at mat tho the theCa cump cUll Ca p und and nd tho the plaintive melody of voices amid tho the forest or on nn the prairie was wis the wound 1 which attracted the attention i of a n hunter mul and who ho had penetrated J l tho the wilderness in hl search of game grime AT Ar WINTER QUARTERS Rb The main maim camp established Itself nt at Winter Whiter Quarters on the tho west wot bunk batik ot of c the Missouri partly occupying some blurts ut lit which the Indians Were welo wont to hold their councils whence tho the later latel name of ot If Council Bluffs The lire houses were built of logs loss u n fortification was vas erected a t grist gilst milt mill and log tab tn tabernacle put Up tip mid and schools established d This Thill work was done in part purt nt at least leant simply to keep the tho men menat menat at since the plasma could be occupied for tur only roily a year or 01 two at most moat But Hut the tho habit of ot work was innate with these Col Kane Kune relates that It was a II comfort to notice the readiness with which they the turned their hands hundo to woodcraft One would tell fell a It tree strip oft orr its bark cut and split up the trunk In plies piles ot QC plank scantling shingles shingleR make makl posts pins poles everything wanted almost to tho the branches and treat his toll tall from Crom first to lust with more sportive flourish than thun a schoolboy Whitt ing his shingle TRIALS OF OP TINT THE JOURNEY But the winter was a 1 hard hurd one olle and the journey just completed had had Its dark daik side Ride Sickness had been general Deaths laid had been so 80 that thaI burials burial had to be he without ceremony Sorrow and lamentation lumel had been bean dally visitors No fatally family hind had escaped few tOI but had burled one or more Col Kane Iane describes a Il familiar scene One of the patients whose emaciated features were lit by n a candle flickering In tho the bleak nIl air oft the tho river was dying of or fever feor Over Oer his leis head was something like a n tent made mado of ot a II sheet or two ami and ho he rested on a partially tipped ripped old straw mattress with n a hair hall sofa sota cushion under bin hll head for tor a Il pillow Ills gaping Jaw jay and eye eve told how mow short a II time lie ho would enjoy these luxuries The people were broken down physically by this time and the miasmatic atmosphere that rose lose from extended areas arens about them ot or at that time tima swampy swamp forest covered lands brought broucht on 01 disease Food l was scare The Tho Indians had to bo bl placated and antI closely closey watched besides THE MORMON BATTALION In 1846 the war with Mexico had hod broken out The authorities at Washington had learned that the Mor Mormons mons were on their way to California or Oregon then Mexican territory and decided to make use use ot of these colonists In winning whoring this great area To 10 alit aid nl l Gen Kearney It was wan decided to call callan on GOO volun from tram the tho Mormons then the a encamped at Pisgah and Council Bluffs Capt Allen laid the proposition before tho limo people who at ut first looked hooked upon this call coli callas colias callas as a Il stroke of their enemies now to destroy thorn them ut lIt tealy But Prest Pret Young sung showed them that the tho nation Itself was not nol responsible for tor their expulsion from n and urged the tho enlistment of at the BOO volunteers vol yol volunteers thereafter to be known as the Mormon Mormon ormon Battalion The Time people rose lose with fine patriotism to the occasion Dos Boys to drive the teams that elder brothers brothels or fathers rs might enlist and the wo women women women men again faced the additional Impending priva privation privation privation tion with quiet heroism timid mid urged the men to go 10 goTo goTo To distract tho the minds of or the people from the awful foreboding of or the new new and nameless fear that now now occupied the thoughts of oC many man tho the evening before the departure of at this battalion for to I the long malch into Mexico was wall appropriated to a 11 farewell ballA ball ballA A more moie merry melT putty party writes wiltes Col Col Kane Kone KaneI I have novel never seen seln At Its itA close a n song In touch touching touchIng ing melody to the words wor s of or the time text By n B the time river of or Babylon we wo sat lIat down and amid wept wins was WI sung by br 1 mu young joung lady lad with a fair tall face Cace and dark clark eyes erell to u 1 a quartet accompaniment The rime battalion waving the time Stars anti and Stripes passed St Joseph marching to the tune tuno of or The Tine Girl I 1 Left Behind Me Mc But Dut their story cannot carrot be bo told toll here tolled Oiled over the plains curd and up mid down the tho momma moun mountain tain can lIn bo be horo the time dins days of ut earlyw want aitt and mid toll Lou In III the tho valley after their heir in lit at this place Only Im rho outline then thell let l l the full Aili fur for tho Imagination Irim g cannot t u but hut sup supply supply ply I the time remit Young choso IH men nt et Council Bluffs to the tho way to the western homo Hama They limey left letl Elkhorn l 27 21 miles from Bluffs murts on April 1111 16 Ir 1847 nor For 01 ot or idles thy they followed the tho of the time liver Ilver keeping mostly masH masHon on ml the time not north th side ot or the stream They touched Fort Fortt t is m V Vi i y 4 lr fy Ml 1 I 71 rc i gJ k r I ill 4 i I f 4 m y rr 1 m Q H Qa a al at a am m lr m 1 I r i J an nn old post most ancl il 11 niso 0 Red fled Buttes Rock hock Devils Irate CSato Little and amid Dig Big Sandy Sund mind tort Port Finally they hey the arrived nt at Echo on They tact met tappets 1 Ill among whom homo and er gave gl them very diurnal dismal dl pictures of the tho Snit Salt Lake valley eird strongly urged d then them to RO go on to tho the fertile lands of oC the tho coax Rut But theli lender leader luul decided dee They rho would po go 0 to the tho Client Greut Salt Lake Luice Ono hat no division of the lime party led by 11 Orson Pratt passed 1 el Into the valley nile on 01 July Jul 22 0 m July 23 President Young lying ill HI In do the wagon ot of Elder Eider Woodruff obtained from Crom an nn eminence a It view 10 of ot the land IlInd In w which he purposed to find fill rest relit and pence peace for his hili wear people ri He Ile gazed upon the tho th tot foe I a a long lon time und and then thou Bald said Enough This Is Im the Drive Arline on ant They Jho pissed passed through 1 Emigration canyon end and scone rune Into the valley of ot the Great Greut Salt Luke Lake on or July JUI 24 1847 SALT SALl LAKE LAH VALLEY The valley lay his hi gleaming beneath tho the nI mays ot of time tho noonday sun sun when first the pioneers beheld It Time The Theair air ah was ns still at and the time sun shone hot upon the tho dry I I and wui baked BUI surface face Time The hills however were cover covered cover covered ed cd with Sagebrush the streams and mountain sides Rides abounded In small I m 11 I trees were upon somo momma J ii of or the tho mountains and nud the canyon ravines were welt well II timbered The lower lands hued had gross grass rushes rusheR and adas a In the moist spots spats and me are said to have been lieen In places The of tho time ilc desert dellert ert was impressive r e i lIve sive and a IL feeling of ut utter loneliness and desolation spring up rip when ever anyone any anyone one became 1 Horn his Ills companions This Thill was w au of ot time the oppressive stillness rime Tho rising ot of heated nil from the tho dry plains caused hl atmosphere to shimmer as aR in ease case ot of a II great tire lime find and the tho hot breath ot or the tho desi desert rt nt at times tines seemed like the blast ot of n a furnace No sound Hound of oC bird or animal no cool streams no grassy grI my I meadows meadow B no living thing but hut the occasional o lizard and locust ex cx except Copt in the cann and mind near time the waters of the lIw lake and the tilt streams that flowed lilt jute It where ms were not lacking But nut before the day was over Oer within un min hour some somo have said the tho pioneers bad hlll their plows going overturning the limo earth for Cor their seed wheat With ith Infinite labor they the brought small streams ot of water from near the thc can canyons along the dry hills bills for tor every eer had hind cut into a u great guile lower louver down They moistened the tho earth eaith where the tho seed was wall sown hown or flooded the hard hurd and baked surface where It could not otherwise bo he plowed 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