Mormon History, Aug 26, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 26 The Pioneer Camp with a large number of the Battalion Harnessed up our horses this morning & bid farewell to our friends who was to tarry. I put A pair of mules on my Carriage & Brother Stillman drove them. I rode on Horsback. I went through the corn & Potatoe fields which has been planted one month this day. The corn was about tosseling out nearly one foot high. The Buckwheat looked well. We drove to a spring 15 miles from camp & spent the night. I Broak my whippletree & had to make a new one. It was exeeding dusty. 15 miles.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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