[Brigham Young Sermon] A meeting of those going west was held at the stand in Winter Quarters at 10:30 am. President Brigham Young proposed that the companies emigrating west be organized at Elkhorn. He expected to raise fifty wagons that week; of this number he and Heber C. Kimball were prepared to raise thirty'- President Young then gave some timely instructions to those who were preparing to start for the mountains. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Journal History of the Church, Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 2 (2002)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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