Show PIONEER reminiscences being one of the pioneers Flon eera of 47 t L thought I 1 would write a few alnee on kojm that subject I 1 left nauvoo early in february 1846 as a a teamster amter te for parley P pratt crowed the be river on OD the tee ice campea at the iowa tithing iffla on the first of march joined the camp on sugar bogar creek and started on oar car journey through iowa we camped at a place called garden grove we fenced in about two wo hundred acres aar of land planted it with corn built quite a number of log bounce stayed thero there two or three weeke week we then started n and came to a campli g place brother pratt called it mount pisgah we stayed fayed there about two weeks weeke holaman pratt was waa born there here awa we then rolled on to the missouri river I 1 enlisted in the mormon battalion I 1 was waa told to stay and take charge of brother pratt family as aa he ha was wae called to go to england we built a small city and called it winter tore terr I 1 ground corn on a hand bana mill through the he winter to keep the family from suf suffering foring A great many died that winter irom from ft a disease called the me black log leg a kind of scurvy carvy for the want of vegetables in the spring pring brother john taylor brought my ate tore ten him irom from england they wanted me to go with them to the valley I 1 left brother pratt and got ready to go with them we ar rived in chevalley the valley about me he drag of october 1847 1 I built as an adobe room in the old fort fork and lived there two we winters in the be spring pring of 48 I 1 gave ten on cents for two small mall california potatoes pota I 1 planted them hebi and raised railed ft pt pick ck antho in the spring of ef 1 came ento my lot IOL I 1 planted my pock of too boea and raised twenty bushels bu abela I 1 had not eaten any potatoes fur flor nearly four years year 1 I have lived on my lot nearly forty eight years yean in the spring pring of 1 planted five acres acre of corn mil huns of large black crickets crl oketa came from the mountains mount alna and destroyed hundreds hundred of acres acre ot of corn and wheat 1 I fought the orlo keto all ummer summer antil and raised eighty bushels of corn GEO |