[Brigham Young Sermon] B. Young enquired how many horses Elijah Ward brought into the valley - does any body know how many horses Mr. Ward had when he came in - and explained where the murder was - I don't know how it would be Decker? could know nothing of it when he was with them all the time - the heels of the old long eared jackass have reached Bridger - first time I saw Bridger he told me he had killed many an Indian and eat him - what a darling thing it would be for Bridger to write to old Tom Benton that we are ruling the Indians - but so help me God I would kill the mountaineers for the first Indian - Mr. Rubedow told me that 400 lodges of Indians had driven Captain Brown from his home yet we hear nothing of it - warned the people to be prepared - herd their horses - rig up the cannon etc (rained and I had to close writing). -- SLC Bowery [Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-13-3, 54; General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (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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