[Hosea Stout Diary] Saturday April 17th 1847. Clear & very cold & windy. I spent the fore noon & home and in town. Saw some who had been to the pioneer came & returned & it appears they are about 75 miles now.
In the after noon I hunted for my cow. Had a long walk to no purpose[.] Thought I saw some Omahas driving away some of our cattle.
Came back and arrainged the guard, & had to put out two men who had never before been called on to do police duty.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Apr 17, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] Prest. Young said it was necessary to have a military organization before we left this place. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878: Major Howard EganÂ's Diary. Howard R. Egan, ed. Salt Lake City, 1917. 25]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 17, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] I instructed the brethren to be careful with their arms, and not to stray off from the camp. William Clayton Journal; HR 9:11; MHBY 606
After we start from this spot, every man must carry his loaded gun, or else have it in his wagon where he can seize it at a moment's notice. If the gun is a cap-lock, he should take off the cap and put on a piece of leather to exclude moisture and dirt; if a flint-lock, he must take out the priming and fill the pan with tow or cotton. The wagons must now keep together while traveling and not separate as heretofore they have separated. Every man is to keep beside his own wagon and is not to leave it except by permission. [MHBY 549]
[source: Elden J. Watson, ed. Brigham Young Addresses, 1801-1877: A Chronological Compilation of Known Addresses of the Prophet Brigham Young, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 1971)]
After we start from this spot, every man must carry his loaded gun, or else have it in his wagon where he can seize it at a moment's notice. If the gun is a cap-lock, he should take off the cap and put on a piece of leather to exclude moisture and dirt; if a flint-lock, he must take out the priming and fill the pan with tow or cotton. The wagons must now keep together while traveling and not separate as heretofore they have separated. Every man is to keep beside his own wagon and is not to leave it except by permission. [MHBY 549]
[source: Elden J. Watson, ed. Brigham Young Addresses, 1801-1877: A Chronological Compilation of Known Addresses of the Prophet Brigham Young, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Privately published, 1971)]
Mormon History, Apr 17, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 17th We travled 8 miles & camped in the edge of a grove of cottonwoods to spend the sabbath. In the Afternoon the organization of the camp was finished in the following order: B Young Lieutenant General, Stephen Markham Colonel, John Pack 1st Major, Fredrick Rounday 2d Major.
The Rigment be divided into tens under the following Captains:
Wilford Woodruff Capt of 1st company
Ezra T. Benson 2d "
Phineas H Young 3d "
Luke Johnson 4th "
Stephen H Godard 5th "
Charles Shumway 6th "
James Case 7 "
Seth Taph 8 "
Howard Egan 9 "
Appleton Harmon 10 "
John Higby 11 "
Norton Jacobs 12 "
John Brown 13 "
Joseph Matthews 14 "
Orders from Gen Young was for the whole regment to Journey in a copacked body as we were in an indian country for evry man to carry his gun loaded for the cap locks to be shut onto a peace of Buck skin with caps Handy to slip on in an instant in case of an artacted, for flint locks with Cotton or tow in the pan & A powder flash handy to prime quick. The object of this caution is to prevent accident. And for every man to walk beside his wag-gon & not leave it except He is sent away. Strict rules & disipline are necessary while travling through A Hostile indian Country.
Some traiders came down from the Pawness & camped with us over night. They had a plenty of Buffaloo meat dried & gave us what we wished. They informed us we were within two days drive of the whole dody of the pawnees. We camped here in a line for the sabbath.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The Rigment be divided into tens under the following Captains:
Wilford Woodruff Capt of 1st company
Ezra T. Benson 2d "
Phineas H Young 3d "
Luke Johnson 4th "
Stephen H Godard 5th "
Charles Shumway 6th "
James Case 7 "
Seth Taph 8 "
Howard Egan 9 "
Appleton Harmon 10 "
John Higby 11 "
Norton Jacobs 12 "
John Brown 13 "
Joseph Matthews 14 "
Orders from Gen Young was for the whole regment to Journey in a copacked body as we were in an indian country for evry man to carry his gun loaded for the cap locks to be shut onto a peace of Buck skin with caps Handy to slip on in an instant in case of an artacted, for flint locks with Cotton or tow in the pan & A powder flash handy to prime quick. The object of this caution is to prevent accident. And for every man to walk beside his wag-gon & not leave it except He is sent away. Strict rules & disipline are necessary while travling through A Hostile indian Country.
Some traiders came down from the Pawness & camped with us over night. They had a plenty of Buffaloo meat dried & gave us what we wished. They informed us we were within two days drive of the whole dody of the pawnees. We camped here in a line for the sabbath.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Mormon History, Apr 16, 1847. Friday.
[William Clayton Journal] This day is gloomy, windy and cold. About 8 the Camp were called together and organized. 2 Captains of 100's viz. Stephen Markham and A[lbert] P. Rockwood were appointed, also 5 captains of 50s and 14 Captains of 10s. There are 143 men and boys on the list of the pioneer company 3 women and Lorenzo Youngs two children. 73 wagons. O. P. Rockwell has gone back to Camp with J[esse] C. Little. Bishop Whitney, Lyman, W[illia]m Kimball and J[oseph] B. Noble return from here to Winter Quarters. The following is a list of all the names of this pioneer company. To wit:
Wilford Woodruff, John S. Fowler, Jacob Burnham, Orson Pratt, Joseph Egbert, John M. Freeman, Marcus B. Thorpe, George A. Smith, George Wardie, 2nd 10 Thomas Grover, Ezra T. Benson, Barnabas L. Adams, Roswell Stevens, Amasa Lyman, Stealing Driggs, Albert Carrington, Thomas Bullock, George Brown, Willard Richards, Jesse C. Little, 3rd 10 Phineas H. Young, John Y. Greene, Thomas Tanner, Brigham Young, Addison Everett; Truman O. Angel, Lorenzo Young and wife, Bryant Stringham, Albert P. Rockwood, Joseph L. Schofield, 4th 10 Luke Johnson, John Holman, Edmund Elsworth, Alvarnus Hanks, George R. Grant, Millen Atwood, Samuel Fox, Tunis Rappleyee, Harvey Pierce, William Dykes, Jacob Weilar, 5th 10 Stephen H. Goddard, Tarlton Lewis, Henry G. Sherwood, Zebedee Coltrin, Sylvester H. Earl, John Dixon, Samuel H. Marble, George Scholes, William Henrie, William A. Empy, 6th 10 Charles Shumway, Andrew Shumway, Thomas Woolsey, Chancy Loveland, Erastus Snow, James Craig, William Wordsworth, William Vance, Simeon Howd, Seeley Owen, 7th 10 James Case, Artemas Johnson, William A. Smoot, Franklin B. Dewey, William Carter, Franklin G. Losee, Burr Frost, Datus Ensign, Franklin B. Stewart, Monroe Frink, Eric Glines, Ozro Eastman, 8th 10 Seth Taft, Horace Thornton, Stephen Kelsey, John S. Eldredge, Charles D. Barnham, Almon M. Williams, Rufus Allen, Robert T. Thomas, James W. Stuart, Elija Newman, Levi N. Kendall, Francis Boggs, David Grant, 9th l Heber C. Kimball, Howard Egan, William A. King, Thomas Cloward, Hosea Cushing, Robert Byard, George Billings, Edson Whipple, Philo Johnson, William Clayton, 10th 10 Appleton M. Harmon, Carlos Murray, Hoarace K. Witney, Orson K. Whitney, Orrin P. Rockwell, Nathaniel Thomas Brown,35 R. Jackson Redding, John Pack, Francis M. Pomroy, Aaron Farr, Nathaniel Fairbanks, 11th 10 John S. Higbee, John Wheeler, Solomon Chamberlain, Conrad Klinenman, Joseph Rooker, Perry Fitzgerald, John H. Tippets, James Davenport, Henson Walker, Benjamin Rolfe, 12th 10 Norton Jacobs, Charles A. Harper, George Woodard,36 Stephen Markham, Lewis Barney, George Mills, Andrew Gibbons, Joseph Hancock, John W. Norton, 13th 10 Shadrach Roundy, Hans C. Hanson, Levi Jackman, Lyman Curtis, John Brown, Mathew Ivory, David Powell, Hark Lay, Oscar Crosby,37 14th 10 Joseph Mathews, Gilbird Summe, John Gleason Charles Burke, Alexander P. Chessley, Rodney Badger, Norman Taylor, Green Flake Black Ellis Eames.
72 wagons 93 horses 52 mules 66 oxen 19 cows 17 dogs and [] chickens.
The names of the females in this Camp are Harriet Page Young, Clarissa Decker, and Ellen Sanders. The names of the children Isaac Perry Decker Young and Sabisky L. Young, making a total of 148 souls who have started to go West of the mountains as Pioneers to find a home where the Saints can live in peace and enjoy the fruits of their labors, and where we shall not be under the dominion of Gentile governments, subject to the wrath of mobs and where the standards of peace can be raised, the Ensign to the nations reared and the Kingdom of God flourish until truth shall prevail, and the Saints enjoy the fulness of the gospel.
The following are the names of the Captains of 50's as appointed at this organization Viz. Addison Everett, Tarlton Lewis, James Case, John Pack and Shadrack Roundy. The Captains of 10's are as follows:
Wilford Woodruff, Ezra T. Benson, Phineas H. Young, Luke Johnson, Stephen H. Goddard, Charles Shumway, James Case, Seth Taft, Howard Egan, Appleton M. Harmon, John S. Higbee, Norton Jacobs, John Brown, Joseph Mathews.
Stephen Markham was appointed the Captain of the Guard and ordered to select out of the Camp, fifty men for guard, such as he had confidence in who are to be considered as a standing guard, to attend to the wagons each night, 12 of them to stand at a time, and to have 2 sets each night, that is 12 each watch to stand half the night. In cases where the horses and cattle are tied some distance from the wagons at night an extra guard is to be selected from the balance of the company or Camps. The standing guard not being permitted to leave the immediate neighborhood of the wagons. After the organization was over I wrote a letter to Diantha, and put it into the hands of Bishop Whitney, together with the one I received yesterday from father and I[] McEwan, also the one from Ellen to James [Case]. Up to 12 o'clock M. I had no w[h]ere to put my Trunk and clothing, and did not know what to do with them. However soon after Heber told me to put them in Appleton M. Harmons wagon, which was done. At 2 the camp started out to proceed on the journey. I bid farwell to Bishop Whitney and his brother Lyman and son Joshua, who all returned from this place, also William H. Kimball and Joseph B. Noble. We traveled about 3 miles and encamped in a line about 600 yards from timber, where there is plenty of Cotton Wood and some rushes. This night I slept with Philo Johnson, but having only one quilt, and the night severely cold, I suffered much, and took a very bad cold. The country in the neighborhood of the Elk Horn is one of the most beautiful I ever saw. The bluffs on the East are nicely rolling and beautifully lined with timber, and some very nice Cedar groves. From these bluffs a little above the Ferry you can see the meanderings of the Platte River, and the beautiful level bottom on the north of it about 15 miles wide for many miles up the river. The Horn is a beautiful River about 150 feet wide and about 4 feet deep.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Wilford Woodruff, John S. Fowler, Jacob Burnham, Orson Pratt, Joseph Egbert, John M. Freeman, Marcus B. Thorpe, George A. Smith, George Wardie, 2nd 10 Thomas Grover, Ezra T. Benson, Barnabas L. Adams, Roswell Stevens, Amasa Lyman, Stealing Driggs, Albert Carrington, Thomas Bullock, George Brown, Willard Richards, Jesse C. Little, 3rd 10 Phineas H. Young, John Y. Greene, Thomas Tanner, Brigham Young, Addison Everett; Truman O. Angel, Lorenzo Young and wife, Bryant Stringham, Albert P. Rockwood, Joseph L. Schofield, 4th 10 Luke Johnson, John Holman, Edmund Elsworth, Alvarnus Hanks, George R. Grant, Millen Atwood, Samuel Fox, Tunis Rappleyee, Harvey Pierce, William Dykes, Jacob Weilar, 5th 10 Stephen H. Goddard, Tarlton Lewis, Henry G. Sherwood, Zebedee Coltrin, Sylvester H. Earl, John Dixon, Samuel H. Marble, George Scholes, William Henrie, William A. Empy, 6th 10 Charles Shumway, Andrew Shumway, Thomas Woolsey, Chancy Loveland, Erastus Snow, James Craig, William Wordsworth, William Vance, Simeon Howd, Seeley Owen, 7th 10 James Case, Artemas Johnson, William A. Smoot, Franklin B. Dewey, William Carter, Franklin G. Losee, Burr Frost, Datus Ensign, Franklin B. Stewart, Monroe Frink, Eric Glines, Ozro Eastman, 8th 10 Seth Taft, Horace Thornton, Stephen Kelsey, John S. Eldredge, Charles D. Barnham, Almon M. Williams, Rufus Allen, Robert T. Thomas, James W. Stuart, Elija Newman, Levi N. Kendall, Francis Boggs, David Grant, 9th l Heber C. Kimball, Howard Egan, William A. King, Thomas Cloward, Hosea Cushing, Robert Byard, George Billings, Edson Whipple, Philo Johnson, William Clayton, 10th 10 Appleton M. Harmon, Carlos Murray, Hoarace K. Witney, Orson K. Whitney, Orrin P. Rockwell, Nathaniel Thomas Brown,35 R. Jackson Redding, John Pack, Francis M. Pomroy, Aaron Farr, Nathaniel Fairbanks, 11th 10 John S. Higbee, John Wheeler, Solomon Chamberlain, Conrad Klinenman, Joseph Rooker, Perry Fitzgerald, John H. Tippets, James Davenport, Henson Walker, Benjamin Rolfe, 12th 10 Norton Jacobs, Charles A. Harper, George Woodard,36 Stephen Markham, Lewis Barney, George Mills, Andrew Gibbons, Joseph Hancock, John W. Norton, 13th 10 Shadrach Roundy, Hans C. Hanson, Levi Jackman, Lyman Curtis, John Brown, Mathew Ivory, David Powell, Hark Lay, Oscar Crosby,37 14th 10 Joseph Mathews, Gilbird Summe, John Gleason Charles Burke, Alexander P. Chessley, Rodney Badger, Norman Taylor, Green Flake Black Ellis Eames.
72 wagons 93 horses 52 mules 66 oxen 19 cows 17 dogs and [] chickens.
The names of the females in this Camp are Harriet Page Young, Clarissa Decker, and Ellen Sanders. The names of the children Isaac Perry Decker Young and Sabisky L. Young, making a total of 148 souls who have started to go West of the mountains as Pioneers to find a home where the Saints can live in peace and enjoy the fruits of their labors, and where we shall not be under the dominion of Gentile governments, subject to the wrath of mobs and where the standards of peace can be raised, the Ensign to the nations reared and the Kingdom of God flourish until truth shall prevail, and the Saints enjoy the fulness of the gospel.
The following are the names of the Captains of 50's as appointed at this organization Viz. Addison Everett, Tarlton Lewis, James Case, John Pack and Shadrack Roundy. The Captains of 10's are as follows:
Wilford Woodruff, Ezra T. Benson, Phineas H. Young, Luke Johnson, Stephen H. Goddard, Charles Shumway, James Case, Seth Taft, Howard Egan, Appleton M. Harmon, John S. Higbee, Norton Jacobs, John Brown, Joseph Mathews.
Stephen Markham was appointed the Captain of the Guard and ordered to select out of the Camp, fifty men for guard, such as he had confidence in who are to be considered as a standing guard, to attend to the wagons each night, 12 of them to stand at a time, and to have 2 sets each night, that is 12 each watch to stand half the night. In cases where the horses and cattle are tied some distance from the wagons at night an extra guard is to be selected from the balance of the company or Camps. The standing guard not being permitted to leave the immediate neighborhood of the wagons. After the organization was over I wrote a letter to Diantha, and put it into the hands of Bishop Whitney, together with the one I received yesterday from father and I[] McEwan, also the one from Ellen to James [Case]. Up to 12 o'clock M. I had no w[h]ere to put my Trunk and clothing, and did not know what to do with them. However soon after Heber told me to put them in Appleton M. Harmons wagon, which was done. At 2 the camp started out to proceed on the journey. I bid farwell to Bishop Whitney and his brother Lyman and son Joshua, who all returned from this place, also William H. Kimball and Joseph B. Noble. We traveled about 3 miles and encamped in a line about 600 yards from timber, where there is plenty of Cotton Wood and some rushes. This night I slept with Philo Johnson, but having only one quilt, and the night severely cold, I suffered much, and took a very bad cold. The country in the neighborhood of the Elk Horn is one of the most beautiful I ever saw. The bluffs on the East are nicely rolling and beautifully lined with timber, and some very nice Cedar groves. From these bluffs a little above the Ferry you can see the meanderings of the Platte River, and the beautiful level bottom on the north of it about 15 miles wide for many miles up the river. The Horn is a beautiful River about 150 feet wide and about 4 feet deep.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Apr 16, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday April 16th 1847. Appearance of rain. I came home today & found all well only my cow missing. I arrainged the guard tonight as usual and had a long hunt for cow till in the night
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Apr 16, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] The brethren were assembled together at the rear of the President's wagon and were addressed. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Pioneer Camp of the Saints, Journals of Thomas Bullock. Will Bagley, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. 121-122]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 16, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] I am the person that the lot falls on, but what to do first, or which way to begin I don't know. I want all the brethren to watch the business of this morning. Organize into a traveling body so as to have a military body if necessary, and have men to be watch, guards, etc. Shall we organize by hundreds, fifties, tens? We shall have three captains of fifties. Erastus Snow Journal. [President Young addressed the company on] the necessity of strict organization and standing strictly to our duties, and he promised them, moreover, that if they would abide his counsel and observe his directions, they should go safe, and they and their teams be preserved from the Indians and every enemy. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 16, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 16th Brother Little, P. Rockwell & J Reading returned to winter quarters. The camp continued up the Platt 4 miles & camped & turned their Horses upon an Island of cottonwood & Rushess. The wind Blew exceding hard during the night.
Before we left this morning the Camp came to gether And was organized for Journeying as a military body into tens [5?]0 & 100s. Col Markham & A. P Rockwood was appointed Captains over A Hundred & 4 Captains of fifties & Captains of tens. I was Appointed Capt of ten. The following are the names of the persons belonging to my ten: W. Woodruff J. S Fowler J. Bornham, O. Pratt, Joseph Egbert, John M. Freeman, Marcus B. Thorp G. A. Smith, George Wardle, Being 9 in all. The camp consisted of 73 waggons & 143 men 3 women & 2 children making 148 souls in all.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Before we left this morning the Camp came to gether And was organized for Journeying as a military body into tens [5?]0 & 100s. Col Markham & A. P Rockwood was appointed Captains over A Hundred & 4 Captains of fifties & Captains of tens. I was Appointed Capt of ten. The following are the names of the persons belonging to my ten: W. Woodruff J. S Fowler J. Bornham, O. Pratt, Joseph Egbert, John M. Freeman, Marcus B. Thorp G. A. Smith, George Wardle, Being 9 in all. The camp consisted of 73 waggons & 143 men 3 women & 2 children making 148 souls in all.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847. Thursday.
[William Clayton Journal] After eating and prayers by Bishop Whitney started at half past 7 and got to the Elk Horn at 11 1/2. We were all across at 12 and there we overtook Brigham, G. A. Smith, E. T. Benson and Amasa Lyman. We arrived at the pioneers Camp about 3 P.M. This Camp is about 12 miles from the Elk Horn and about 47 from Winter Quarters. I spent the evening with Aaron Farr, Horace Whitney and Jackson Redding.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Thursday April 15th 1847. Today clear warm beautiful day. I went over about 8 miles to see about a yoke of my oxen which had been in the stray herd on that side all winter. They strayed from me while I was on Hydes Ridge in July last & I never saw them till today & now only one which was at my mother-in-laws (E. Taylor)I found them all well & preparing to put in crops.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
At Winter Quarters Joseph Smith's former secretary William Clayton tells Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball that Joseph Smith's former bodyguard and former Nauvoo chief of police Hosea Stout has threatened to kill him.
[source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young mounted the front of his wagon and called aloud '"Attention the Camp of Israel'" when the brethren assembled at this wagon and he addressed them in a short speech. (See minutes on file) -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Pioneer Camp of the Saints, Journals of Thomas Bullock. Will Bagley, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. 121]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] I called the pioneer camp together and addressed the brethren on the necessity of being faithful, humble and prayerful on the journey. Exhorted the camp to vigilance in guarding and informed the brethren that I had intimations that the Pawnee Indians were advised to rob us. Said we should go to bed early, rest on Sabbath and go in such a manner as to claim the blessings of Heaven. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1847- 1850. William S. Harwell, ed. CollierÂ's Publishing, 1997.:49-50]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] Attention, the Camp of Israel. We should have a stated number for guard all the route - and be faithful to their post - and ten sleep in the wagons in day time this evening call out a sufficient guard - and request all horses, mules, oxen and cows tied up - and use the utmost care possible - we must have faith, be humble reverence the Almighty and act in the name of the Savior all the way through - we have often heard of people being robbed by the Indians - all the influence that agents and missionaries and traders have is exercised over the Indians to our injury - the savages are not yet grafted in the olive tree. They are now as a withered branch before the Lord - those who have receive the work are puffed up and only assist us to benefit themselves, this is the first time we have been assembled together since our start - in our traveling and organization we shall have laws and regulations to protect ourselves and our property - we are driven from civilization, and people who call themselves Christians - we go as Abram of old '" where we stop we now know not, we want the brethren to cease every hard speech, levity, nonsense, and childish notions, and act as servants of God. Are we not capable of improvement? Are we not susceptible of receiving more intelligence? We shall arise at the sound of the horn. We shall pray at the sound of the horn - guards set at night - and the rest retire to their beds - we shall not travel on the Sabbath. We shall go so as to claim the blessings of the Almighty - we are hunted and driven by the civilized people and the savages of the wilderness, but we should go and build temples, and I shall labor diligently to see thousands of the elders of Israel go to preach to the world leave every thing behind - hand them over into the hands of the Lord - and then pray - come back to your families and embrace them with cheerfulness - I have information that word has gone to the Pawnee Indians to rob and plunder and I promise you in the name of Israel's God that the time will come that it will revert double upon their own heads. What they do against us tomorrow at seven or half past seven we want every man to be here - just as quick as we find a man will not attend to his duty, we shall punish him, severely, I had rather go alone that go along with a company of slothful, negligent, lazy people who will not pray or attend to their duties. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] About sundown President Young called the brethren together and instructed them to have a care of their teams, and cease all music, dancing and light-mindedness; and instructed them, exhorted them to prayer and faithfulness. He also stated that the traders and missionaries were stirring up the Indians to plunder us of our horses and goods. He said that if we were faithful and obeyed counsel the Lord would bless us and we should pass through safe. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878: Major Howard EganÂ's Diary. Howard R. Egan, ed. Salt Lake City, 1917. 23]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
Mormon History, Apr 15, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 15th Professor Pratt took an observation this morning for the correct time. We had a good Breakfast. Soon Brs Young Kimball Henson, Whitney & many others Came & crossed the ferry & we all moved up to the general Camp on the Platt River. 9 miles.
We found the Camp vary busy in Blacksmith work & getting ready to continue the Journey. We spent the night at this place. During the evening Br Little arived from the eastern states in our midst. When He arived at winter quarters finding we had left He followed us post haste leaving all things behind him. He overtook us this evening. He gave us news of the eastern churches. Spoke of many friends Among wholm was our friend Col Kane who had remembered the Quorum of the Twelve & others by forwarding A variety of Presents to us. He forwarded to me A Patent Life Preserver & Stop Compass. Br Little spent the night in camp.
[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]
We found the Camp vary busy in Blacksmith work & getting ready to continue the Journey. We spent the night at this place. During the evening Br Little arived from the eastern states in our midst. When He arived at winter quarters finding we had left He followed us post haste leaving all things behind him. He overtook us this evening. He gave us news of the eastern churches. Spoke of many friends Among wholm was our friend Col Kane who had remembered the Quorum of the Twelve & others by forwarding A variety of Presents to us. He forwarded to me A Patent Life Preserver & Stop Compass. Br Little spent the night in camp.
[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]
Mormon History, Apr 14, 1847. Wednesday.
[William Clayton Journal] This morning severely pained with rheumatism in my face. At 11 o'clock Brigham and Dr. Richards came. B. told me to rise up and start with the pioneers in half an hour's notice. I delivered to him the records of the K[ingdom] of G[od] and set my folks to work to get my clothes together to start with the pioneers. At 2 o'clock I left my family and started in Heber's carriage with Heber and W[illia]m Kimball and Ellen Sanders. Bishop Whitney and [Amasa] Lyman went out with us in another wagon. We went about 19 miles and camped on the prairie. After supper Heber prayed and we retired to rest.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Apr 14, 1847 (Wednesday)
Pres. Brigham Young and his brethren of the Twelve left Winter Quarters for the Rocky Mountains. They joined the Pioneer camp near the Elkhorn river.
[source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
Mormon History, Apr 14, 1847
William Clayton Delivers Council of Fifty records to Brigham Young prior to leavingWinter Quarters for the Great Salt Lake Valley.
[source: Smith, George D., An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, p.lxiii, A William Clayton Chronology, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[source: Smith, George D., An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, p.lxiii, A William Clayton Chronology, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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