[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesday May 11th 1847. This morning when I got up I found Capt Caw & 3 more chiefs standing in my yard waiting for me to get up. I invited them in[.] They informed me that they wanted two more beeves one for breakfast & one to take home them. I went & made report of the same to Parley & Cutler[.] Their request was granted & I spent a long time in making preperations to get the cattle for them[.] These he took breakfast with me & while they were eating five more came and stood around the door & Jim invited them in to eat as soon as he was done
While here Capt Caw made a long speech to me stating his good feelings for us and his willingness for us to stay on his land deprecating at the same time, the rascalty Omahas &c.
The guard went down about six miles, which was below the place where we met them yesterday & there waited until the Indians came on.
They were engaged in dressing their beef to take home with them.
They came on not long after we arrived & we all went on together about two miles further & we turned North along the dividing and took our post on guard
This company of Indians went down to the Omaha Village & I sent word by them to let them know that we were out with a guard and were prepared to meet them in case they attempted to force our cattle away.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, May 11, 1847
Appleton Milo Harmon constructs the Mormon pioneer "Roadometer" (odometer) according to Orson Pratt-s design and William Clayton's original suggestion. The next day it is attached to Clayton's wagon and relieves Clayton of the task of counting individual rotations of a wagon wheel which he has been doing until now.
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
Mormon History, May 11, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 11th Quite warm to day. We travled 4 miles & made A short halt then travled 3 1/2 miles & camped A little below the junction of the North & south forks of the Platt River. I felt quite unwell. The use of fresh meet does not as yet agree vary well with me. We see but few Buffalo to day some Antelope & Deer &c. 8 1/2 miles.
Professor Pratt informed me that He took an observation for the Longitude May 7th on the opposite bank of the Platt from whare Freemont gives the Longitude in his travels. Professor Pratt made the Longitude to be 100°5'45" making it two seconds of a degree less than Freemont ownly about 10 rods which was vary Close calculating. He also found the Lat 1/2 a mile west of this nights encampment to be 41°7'44".
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Professor Pratt informed me that He took an observation for the Longitude May 7th on the opposite bank of the Platt from whare Freemont gives the Longitude in his travels. Professor Pratt made the Longitude to be 100°5'45" making it two seconds of a degree less than Freemont ownly about 10 rods which was vary Close calculating. He also found the Lat 1/2 a mile west of this nights encampment to be 41°7'44".
[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, May 10, 1847. Monday.
[William Clayton Journal] The morning fine but cool. The wind nearly ceased. Last night I dreamed that I was in company with the camp which was stopping beside a considerable river of deep water. Our horses and cattle were tied to stakes all around the camp to the distance of a quarter of a mile, some good timber thinly scattered around. I thought President Young, Kimball and several others started up the river in a flat boat without stating their object, leaving the brethren to guard the camp, cattle &c. in their absence. When they had been gone sometime I thought a large herd of buffalo came on full gallop right amongst our horses and cattle, causing them to break their ropes and fly in every direction. The brethren seemed thunderstruck and did not know what to do. Seeing a small skiff in the river I sprang into it and a paddle lying in it I commenced rowing in pursuit of the President. It seemed as though I literally flew through the water passing everything on the way like a railway carriage. In a few minutes I overtook the brethren in the flat boat, took the skiff and threw it on shore and to my astonishment I saw that the skiff was made only of barks and cracked all over and it seemed impossible to put it in the water without sinking it. The paddle with which I had rowed proved to be a very large feather and I had another feather in my left hand with which I steered the skiff. When I got into the flat boat I made known what had passed in the camp but the brethren seemed in no ways alarmed. I awoke and behold it was all a dream. Dr. Richards is going to deposit a letter in a stick of wood prepared for the purpose near this place in such a manner that the next company will discover it. He fixed it on a long pole and being assisted by President Young and others raised it and fixed it firm in the ground . . .
[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, May 10, 1847
Gen. Stephen Kearny inspects the Mormon Battalion in Los Angeles and encourages the single men in the battalion to reenlist.
[source: Mormon Battalion Timeline, Herald Extra, March 25, 2010]
[source: Mormon Battalion Timeline, Herald Extra, March 25, 2010]
Mormon History, May 10, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Monday May the 10th 1847. It was all hurry and bustle to be off this morning. We started at 9 in the morning mounted & took a circuit to the North through the hills & breaks hunting for the lurking places of the Indians untill we got out on the prairie & then took the dividing ridge & went south turning our horses out occasionally to graze while we watched for Indians untill we were about six or 7 miles below town S. W. or S. near a grove & while turning our horses at, a large number of Indians were discovered coming towards town & some still in their rear
Supposing them to be Omahas going to the flat to drive cattle from thence I sent two men to notify the herdsmen there to drive in their herds, while we stayed on the hill to watch them least they should go around on the ridge & drive cattle from thence.
After they had mostly gone to the flat we also went on a force march to intersect them & met them just as we came to the flat
They were Ottos. There were some 40 accompanyed by their head chiefs in all 4. One could talk English & he told me who whey were & I was satisfied that they would do no harm.
In a few moments the whole company came up. Capt Caw was along who knew me[.] He was very glad to see me[.] They all seemed to want to shake hands with me. I suppose he told who I was. The whole bottom was full of cattle, at this time all in a tumult running & driving dust flying to get to town so I sent a man to tell them to stop while we all turned out horses to graze with they Ottoes for they had horses.after grazing a while we came into town about three oclock & they went to the council house & put up for the night[.] A church ox was given to them for their supper.
Jim & his brother, the war chief came home with me & took dinner. Capt Caw went with Br Major who took his likeness, which amused the rest very much when they saw it. They would laugh & say "Capt Caw."
They came to pay us a visit & see further about having their corn drawn for them. I spent the day in attending to business for them & arrainging the guard untill about 11 oclock at night
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Supposing them to be Omahas going to the flat to drive cattle from thence I sent two men to notify the herdsmen there to drive in their herds, while we stayed on the hill to watch them least they should go around on the ridge & drive cattle from thence.
After they had mostly gone to the flat we also went on a force march to intersect them & met them just as we came to the flat
They were Ottos. There were some 40 accompanyed by their head chiefs in all 4. One could talk English & he told me who whey were & I was satisfied that they would do no harm.
In a few moments the whole company came up. Capt Caw was along who knew me[.] He was very glad to see me[.] They all seemed to want to shake hands with me. I suppose he told who I was. The whole bottom was full of cattle, at this time all in a tumult running & driving dust flying to get to town so I sent a man to tell them to stop while we all turned out horses to graze with they Ottoes for they had horses.after grazing a while we came into town about three oclock & they went to the council house & put up for the night[.] A church ox was given to them for their supper.
Jim & his brother, the war chief came home with me & took dinner. Capt Caw went with Br Major who took his likeness, which amused the rest very much when they saw it. They would laugh & say "Capt Caw."
They came to pay us a visit & see further about having their corn drawn for them. I spent the day in attending to business for them & arrainging the guard untill about 11 oclock at night
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, May 10, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 10th A Cool morning. Before leaving the camp ground A letter was written to the next camp put into a small box nailed to A post 12 feet long one end put firm in the ground the other end erect in the air as A guide bord containing the following words: Open this Box and you will find a letter.
316 miles to winter Quarters. Pioneers. Lattitude 41°. (Our Friends no doubt will be glad to get the letter as it contains an account of our Journey.
We travled 6 miles & nooned then travled 4 & camped for the night. Our teams are some weak in consequences of not getting grass for several days as it was eat out by the Buffalo. There was one Buffalo, one deer & one Hare Brought into Camp by the Hunters to day, & distributed among the men in camp. We have what fresh meat we want daily. The grass is some better to day. Not but few Herds of Buffalo on our rout today we passed through some miles of dead grass which we set on fire to have new feed for the next company. It made a great fire indeed. We get our distance daily now of our travel from A mashine fixed to a waggon wheel which gives the true distance. We camped to night by an Island of cotton wood. 10 m.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
316 miles to winter Quarters. Pioneers. Lattitude 41°. (Our Friends no doubt will be glad to get the letter as it contains an account of our Journey.
We travled 6 miles & nooned then travled 4 & camped for the night. Our teams are some weak in consequences of not getting grass for several days as it was eat out by the Buffalo. There was one Buffalo, one deer & one Hare Brought into Camp by the Hunters to day, & distributed among the men in camp. We have what fresh meat we want daily. The grass is some better to day. Not but few Herds of Buffalo on our rout today we passed through some miles of dead grass which we set on fire to have new feed for the next company. It made a great fire indeed. We get our distance daily now of our travel from A mashine fixed to a waggon wheel which gives the true distance. We camped to night by an Island of cotton wood. 10 m.
[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, May 9, 1847. Sunday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...Soon as the camp was formed, I went about 3/4 of a mile below to the river and washed my socks, towel and handkerchief as well as I could in cold water without soap. I then stripped my cloths off and washed from head to foot, which has made me feel much more comfortable for I was covered with dust. After washing and putting on clean clothing I sat down on the banks of the river and gave way to a long train of solemn reflections respecting many things, especially in regard to my family and their welfare for time and eternity. I shall not write my thoughts down here, inasmuch as I expect this journal will have to pass through other hands besides my own or that of my family, but if I can carry my plans into operation, they will be wrote, in a manner that my family will each get their portion, whether before my death or after it matters not.
The day is very warm and the wind has moved to the west. According to my calculations, we are now 300 miles from Winter Quarters, lacking a few rods. I got a small board and wrote on it "From Winter Quarters 300 miles, May 9, 1847. Pioneer Camp all well. Distance according to the reckoning of W Clayton." This was nailed on a post and in the evening I went and set it up about 300 yards from here on a bend of the river. Spent the afternoon reading and writing in the Elder Kimball's journal. At 3 P.M. a meeting was called and the Camp addressed by several. President Young took tea with Elder Kimball, and afterwards they started out together, with one or two others to look at the country ahead of us . . .
[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]
The day is very warm and the wind has moved to the west. According to my calculations, we are now 300 miles from Winter Quarters, lacking a few rods. I got a small board and wrote on it "From Winter Quarters 300 miles, May 9, 1847. Pioneer Camp all well. Distance according to the reckoning of W Clayton." This was nailed on a post and in the evening I went and set it up about 300 yards from here on a bend of the river. Spent the afternoon reading and writing in the Elder Kimball's journal. At 3 P.M. a meeting was called and the Camp addressed by several. President Young took tea with Elder Kimball, and afterwards they started out together, with one or two others to look at the country ahead of us . . .
[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, May 9, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Sunday May the 9th 1847. Clear & coolrather unfavorable for gardening.
This morning Br. Titus Billings & family move into one of my houses to live awhile. They were in company with me while journying from Mt Pisgah to the Bluffs and were uncommonly kind, benevolent & attentive to me, at that time when I was so much worn out with sickness poverty and distress
Meeting at the stand as usual. Parley spoke in the fore-noon on the subject of the stupidity of the people in observing the council & instructions of the Twelve & their heedlessness about their cattle in exposing them to the Omahas also in not working according to the instructions of the Epistle of the Twelve &c & touched very plainly on the dullness of the people, about as it exhisted. Said there was more to be said and requested a general attendance in the after noon. He also disabused some reports current that he gave council different from Brighams policy &c
In the after noon both Parley & Taylor spoke at length on the same things after which several votes were put all carried unanimously, viz: to obey council, To work in union & not individually, to finish the stockading & none go West till all stockade was done To sustain the poor & in short to work according to the pattern. Council was given to herd the cattle more closely & secure them against the Omahas and a company of ten tough Rangers to be raised to guard the out skirts of the Herds to prevent Omaha depredations. When I was voted capt of the same & to raise the men who were to be well mounted & armed so as to defend ourselves against them if necessary & whip them if caught in mischief.
Ten different individuals then were called for to volunteer to pay the Rangers each to pay one man.
The names of those who volunteered to pay the Rangers were
1 P. P. Pratt 6 Alpheus Cutler
2 Danl Russel 7 Jos Young.
3 John Taylor 8 Isaac Morley
4 David Boss 9 D. D. Grant
5 Danl Spencer 10 John Neff.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
This morning Br. Titus Billings & family move into one of my houses to live awhile. They were in company with me while journying from Mt Pisgah to the Bluffs and were uncommonly kind, benevolent & attentive to me, at that time when I was so much worn out with sickness poverty and distress
Meeting at the stand as usual. Parley spoke in the fore-noon on the subject of the stupidity of the people in observing the council & instructions of the Twelve & their heedlessness about their cattle in exposing them to the Omahas also in not working according to the instructions of the Epistle of the Twelve &c & touched very plainly on the dullness of the people, about as it exhisted. Said there was more to be said and requested a general attendance in the after noon. He also disabused some reports current that he gave council different from Brighams policy &c
In the after noon both Parley & Taylor spoke at length on the same things after which several votes were put all carried unanimously, viz: to obey council, To work in union & not individually, to finish the stockading & none go West till all stockade was done To sustain the poor & in short to work according to the pattern. Council was given to herd the cattle more closely & secure them against the Omahas and a company of ten tough Rangers to be raised to guard the out skirts of the Herds to prevent Omaha depredations. When I was voted capt of the same & to raise the men who were to be well mounted & armed so as to defend ourselves against them if necessary & whip them if caught in mischief.
Ten different individuals then were called for to volunteer to pay the Rangers each to pay one man.
The names of those who volunteered to pay the Rangers were
1 P. P. Pratt 6 Alpheus Cutler
2 Danl Russel 7 Jos Young.
3 John Taylor 8 Isaac Morley
4 David Boss 9 D. D. Grant
5 Danl Spencer 10 John Neff.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, May 9, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] I came home from meeting and was engaged in raising the Company of Rangers, as we were to be out earley in the morning. I came home about 9 oclock
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, May 9, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 9th Sunday As we had no feed around us we took up our teams & passed across the Bluffs 4 miles & camped for the day. I wrote 2 letters one to Br Ferguson & the other to Br Bevin for Br Wolley to take with him to Purbelo.
We had a meeting & a good one. The spirit of God rules over the camp. Peace quietnes & contentment seems to pervade almost evry Breast.
The Twelve met & thought it best for the Brethren not to start to Pueblo untill they arive at Laramey. In the evening I rode with the Twelve & others 4 miles up the river & returned. We saw large Herds of Buffalo come to there watering places to drink, some geese, cranes & one Pole Cat. 8 miles.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
We had a meeting & a good one. The spirit of God rules over the camp. Peace quietnes & contentment seems to pervade almost evry Breast.
The Twelve met & thought it best for the Brethren not to start to Pueblo untill they arive at Laramey. In the evening I rode with the Twelve & others 4 miles up the river & returned. We saw large Herds of Buffalo come to there watering places to drink, some geese, cranes & one Pole Cat. 8 miles.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Mormon History, May 8, 1847. Saturday.
[William Clayton Journal] Morning cold but fine. Started out at nine o'clock and traveled till one P.M., distance 7 1/2 miles, course a little West of N.W. The prairie on both sides the river are literally black with buffalo, and to try to say as to what number we have seen this morning would be folly. I should imagine that at a moderate calculation, we have seen over fifty thousand . . .
It is with some difficulty that the horsemen can drive them away from the track as fast as the wagons come up...I have counted the revolutions of a wagon wheel to tell the exact distance we have travelled . . . I found the wheel 14 feet 8 inches in circumference, not varying one eighth of an inch. I then calculated how many revolutions it would require for 1 mile and found it precisely 360 not varying one fraction which somewhat astonished me. I have counted the whole revolutions during the days travel and find it to be a little over 11 1/4 miles, (20 revolutions over.) The overplus I shall add to the next days travel. According to my previous calculations we were 285 miles from winter quarters this morning before we started. After traveling 10 miles placed a small Cedar post in the ground with these words wrote on it with a pencil. "From Winter Quarters 295 miles, May 8, 47. Camp all well. W Clayton." Some have past the days travel at 13 and some 14 miles, which serves to convince more strongly that the distances are overrated. I have repeatedly suggested a plan of fixing machinery to a wagon wheel to tell the exact distance we travel in a day, and many begin to be sanguine for carrying it into effect, and I hope it will done...Two calves have been killed and brought to Camp, and multitudes would be killed if the pres[iden]t did not prohibit the brethren from killing them only as we need the meat. Truly the "Lords Cattle upon the thousand hills are numerous."
[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]
It is with some difficulty that the horsemen can drive them away from the track as fast as the wagons come up...I have counted the revolutions of a wagon wheel to tell the exact distance we have travelled . . . I found the wheel 14 feet 8 inches in circumference, not varying one eighth of an inch. I then calculated how many revolutions it would require for 1 mile and found it precisely 360 not varying one fraction which somewhat astonished me. I have counted the whole revolutions during the days travel and find it to be a little over 11 1/4 miles, (20 revolutions over.) The overplus I shall add to the next days travel. According to my previous calculations we were 285 miles from winter quarters this morning before we started. After traveling 10 miles placed a small Cedar post in the ground with these words wrote on it with a pencil. "From Winter Quarters 295 miles, May 8, 47. Camp all well. W Clayton." Some have past the days travel at 13 and some 14 miles, which serves to convince more strongly that the distances are overrated. I have repeatedly suggested a plan of fixing machinery to a wagon wheel to tell the exact distance we travel in a day, and many begin to be sanguine for carrying it into effect, and I hope it will done...Two calves have been killed and brought to Camp, and multitudes would be killed if the pres[iden]t did not prohibit the brethren from killing them only as we need the meat. Truly the "Lords Cattle upon the thousand hills are numerous."
[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, May 8, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Saturday May the 8th 1847. Fine pleasant day but rather cool[.] Nothing of interest going on. I was around as usual. One guard out at a time weak work.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, May 8, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 8th A Plesant morning. Not so cold & winday as yesterday. We did not start untill 10 oclok as our teams wanted rest as they Could not get much as the Buffalo had eat all the food up. Br Wm Clayton prepared A mile gage on his hind waggon wheel to know how far we travel.
I rode forward to day with the Twelve & others & of All the sights of Buffalo that our eyes beheld [this] was enough to asstonish man. Thousands upon thousands would Croud to gether as they came from the Bluffs to the Bottom land to go to the river & slues to drink untill the river & land upon both sides of it was one dark spectacle of moving objects. It looked as though the face of the earth was alive & moving like the waves of the sea. Br Kimball remarked that He had herd many Buffalo tales told But He never expected to behold what his eyes now saw. The half had not been told him.
We saw many dead scattered about & many wolves following the herds. When we stoped at noon many of them walked along by the side of our waggons so that we might easily have shot them down. O P Rockwell did shoot one through the neck & she droped dead. It was a two year old Heifer & good meat. There were a great number of Calves & young cattle in the Herds we saw to day. We had great difficulty in keeping our Cattle & Horses from going among them for if they once get mixed with a Herd it is almost impossible to ever get them again.
We travled to day untill we Came to the Bluffs that made down to the river & camped for the night. Distance 11 1/4 miles.
I went onto the top of the Highest Bluffs that were near us & took A survey of the surrounding country with our glasses there being present B. Young H C. Kimball W Woodruff & G A Smith. The whole surrounding country north east & west as far as our vision could extend looked as rough as the sea in a storm of ridges & valleys of mostly sand with scarcely any green thing upon it except a little scattering grass & the Spanish soap root such as the mexicans use for washing with instead of soap. The top resembles A pine Apple the most of anything I ever saw. I brought in one root 24 inch long 2 inch in diameter. I pounded A little of it up & it would fill a dish with suds like soap.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I rode forward to day with the Twelve & others & of All the sights of Buffalo that our eyes beheld [this] was enough to asstonish man. Thousands upon thousands would Croud to gether as they came from the Bluffs to the Bottom land to go to the river & slues to drink untill the river & land upon both sides of it was one dark spectacle of moving objects. It looked as though the face of the earth was alive & moving like the waves of the sea. Br Kimball remarked that He had herd many Buffalo tales told But He never expected to behold what his eyes now saw. The half had not been told him.
We saw many dead scattered about & many wolves following the herds. When we stoped at noon many of them walked along by the side of our waggons so that we might easily have shot them down. O P Rockwell did shoot one through the neck & she droped dead. It was a two year old Heifer & good meat. There were a great number of Calves & young cattle in the Herds we saw to day. We had great difficulty in keeping our Cattle & Horses from going among them for if they once get mixed with a Herd it is almost impossible to ever get them again.
We travled to day untill we Came to the Bluffs that made down to the river & camped for the night. Distance 11 1/4 miles.
I went onto the top of the Highest Bluffs that were near us & took A survey of the surrounding country with our glasses there being present B. Young H C. Kimball W Woodruff & G A Smith. The whole surrounding country north east & west as far as our vision could extend looked as rough as the sea in a storm of ridges & valleys of mostly sand with scarcely any green thing upon it except a little scattering grass & the Spanish soap root such as the mexicans use for washing with instead of soap. The top resembles A pine Apple the most of anything I ever saw. I brought in one root 24 inch long 2 inch in diameter. I pounded A little of it up & it would fill a dish with suds like soap.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Mormon History, May 7, 1847. Friday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...About 8 o'clock the camp were called together and measures taken to raise more team to put to the Cannon, as some of the horses and even cattle have gave out. The president chastised E[rastus] Snow for not attending to the cows yesterday causing the president to lose his spyglass, it being Brother Snow's turn to drive the cows according to his own voluntary agreement. At a little before 11 o'clock Porter Rockwell, Thomas Brown and Joseph Mathews started back to hunt the spy glass . . .
About 4 Porter and the others returned having found the spy glass, which was a source of joy to all the brethren.
[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]
About 4 Porter and the others returned having found the spy glass, which was a source of joy to all the brethren.
[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, May 7, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday May 7th 1847. Dull cloudy weather[.] North wind[.] Omahas made another breach on the cattl driving off some seven or 8 oxen. About 20 men went in pursuit brought in some of the beef. Went around as usual & took Wilber J. Earl into the police
The police is running very low hard to keep up a guard. The spirits of the people is dull about their own protection and safety & seem unwilling to do anything to keep up the guard.
About ten oclock at night I got word that Omahas were on the bottom near town. Called on the Bishops to raise men to guard the South of town against their approach.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
The police is running very low hard to keep up a guard. The spirits of the people is dull about their own protection and safety & seem unwilling to do anything to keep up the guard.
About ten oclock at night I got word that Omahas were on the bottom near town. Called on the Bishops to raise men to guard the South of town against their approach.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, May 7, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] The brethren were called together this morning to hear some instruction from President Young: he stated, that he wished that some of the brethren who had spare horses would raise one or two to draw the cannon '" that he supposed when they left Winter Quarters, that it was furnished with a team; but behold, when they had got out here a long way from home, the man, who had given the horses for that purpose, wished to take them away for their own use '" that his own horses were completely tired out in drawing it, & he thought it no more than right that others should step forward & assist '" that he wanted a man to drive the team, who would not permit 8 or 10 men & boys to ride on the cannon, that being the case, he thought two horses could easily draw it. Bro. Roswell Stevens furnished one for the day, one that had already drawn the cannon, belonging to put along side of one they already had. '" President Young slightly reproved Bro. Erastus Snow (who had charge of the cow herd yesterday) for neglect of duty '" the latter retorted, in no very measured terms, when the President proved by a number of individuals, that he was absent from, when he should have been present with, the herd '" Notwithstanding, Erastus continued to excuse himself, but President Young rebuked him very sharply, telling him that if he had been only a year or two in the church, he would be excusable; but, as he had been for a number of years therein, he ought to know better than to give way to a rebellious spirit, for he had seen a number of men go to the Devil from the same cause like unto Warren Parrish & Sylvester Smith, who apostatized at Kirtland several years ago '" a vote was taken, that all those who believed Bro. Snow was in the way of his duty yesterday, should say '"Yes'" '" contrary '"No'" It was unanimous in the negative '" President Young advised that in travelling every captain should remain with his company of 10 or, if he left, to appoint a man to act in his place '-that it was his mind that no [more] should be killed, either antelope, buffalo, or any thing else, '"for'" said he, '"my opinion is that if we do slay when we do not need, we will need, when we cannot slay'" '" He further said that men & boys should not, out of mere bravado venture near a herd of buffalo for some time or other they would get injured or nearly killed by them, & then they would begin to take the hint and wish they had obeyed counsel, & kept away. -- Gothenburg, Nebraska [Horace K. Whitney Journal, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..]
[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, May 7, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young said there are horses wanted to draw the cannon. I have procured a boat and am taking it along for the benefit of the camp, and have furnished most of the horses for the cannon, until my teams are so worn down that I have need for them all, and I want the brethren to feel a common interest in the welfare pertaining to the whole, and those who have horses that they can spare, to put them in to draw the cannon. When we left Winter Quarters there were four horses attached to the cannon, and I supposed that the teams had been fitted up according to my instructions and was going through the journey; but the horses have been since taken away and it has fallen on my hand and I want the brethren to furnish some horses to draw the cannon. Colonel Markham will put on a driver that will not let the men ride on it and kill the horses. Let the buffalo and game alone and kill no more till we need it. I feel we shall want for game if we don't take this course and the camp voted unanimously that they would not kill no more game until they needed it to eat. I want to know if the camp will take care of the cows, or whether every man shall take care of his own; or what they intend to do about it. Yesterday there was no one with the cows and they started twice to go to the buffalo and I had to run my horse twice to bring them back, in doing which I lost a good telescope. I did not know then that Erastus Snow was the driver for that time. If I had, I should have know that he would not go out of his road one rod, he is so lazy. I expect some of the boys will get caught by a buffalo on the prairie and get badly hurt if not killed, before the brethren will stop going after them. Don't dare the buffalo, but let them alone; if the buffalo should come in the night and scare our cattle and they brake loose and run they will follow the buffalo and we shall lose them in all probability. The brethren must guard against this thing. Erastus Snow said that he had furnished some team for the cannon, had a team of his own drive, that he had no cow in the herd, that after this men might drive their own cows and if any man could fix a charge of laziness upon him, or anything else wherein he had not done his duty, they might do it and welcome; and if I can't throw it off, I will bear it. President Young then said Brother Snow was to driver the cattle yesterday. Snow replied, Yes, I volunteered to do it. The camp voted yesterday unanimously that Erastus Snow was not in the line of his duty in not taking care of the cows. President Young said I will warrant the best man in camp that undertakes to stick up his nib against the authorities that he will slide off like Warren Parish and Sylvester Smith. Brother Snow apologized. -- Gothenburg, Nebraska [Pioneer Camp of the Saints, Journals of Thomas Bullock. Will Bagley, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. 148]
[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, May 7, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th A meeting was called. One of the Herdsman recieved a sharp reproof for neglecting the Cows yesterday. A teem was called for to take the canon. We had an exceding Cold north wind to day. We travled 6 miles & Camped upon the bank of the river. I should Judge we saw 10,000 Buffalo to day.
We came near large Herds with a greater proportion than usual of calves, yearlings, & two year olds. We saw several large ones mired, dead. Wolves had commenced eating some of them. We could see wolves upon evry hand following the Herds of Buffalo to eat those who die of wounds, Accident or poverty.
We had some rain in the evening. President Young & others rode out /6 mile/ in the evening to search out the road A few miles forward & for the first time on the Journey saw & killed a Polecat or Skunk.
The Rigment was called out in the evening & drilled Arms inspected &c & found in good order. It was supposed an Indian was seen crossing the river in the night but was stoped & did not get ashore.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
We came near large Herds with a greater proportion than usual of calves, yearlings, & two year olds. We saw several large ones mired, dead. Wolves had commenced eating some of them. We could see wolves upon evry hand following the Herds of Buffalo to eat those who die of wounds, Accident or poverty.
We had some rain in the evening. President Young & others rode out /6 mile/ in the evening to search out the road A few miles forward & for the first time on the Journey saw & killed a Polecat or Skunk.
The Rigment was called out in the evening & drilled Arms inspected &c & found in good order. It was supposed an Indian was seen crossing the river in the night but was stoped & did not get ashore.
[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, May 6, 1847. Thursday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...we discovered the horsemen coming back, and found that the president had lost his large spy glass while chasing the cows from the buffalo herd a second time.
[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]
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