From Kirtland to Salt Lake CityJ.A. Little, 1890 - 260 páginas |
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FROM KIRTLAND TO SALT LAKE CIT James a. (James Amasa) 1822-190 Little Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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animals Apostles arrived August bank Bishop brethren Bridger Brigham Young Brother buffalo California canyon Captain cattle cholera Church cold company of Saints creek crossed death desert destitute distance early Elder Elk Horn encamped epistle feet fifty five flour Fort Bridger friends Frontier Guardian gathering grass grave horses hundred miles Hunter Hyde Indians Iowa Joseph Joseph Smith journey July June Kanesville killed Kirtland labor land Laramie Loupe Fork Missouri river Mormon Battalion morning mules night organized Orson Hyde oxen pany party Perpetual Emigration Fund persecution pioneers plains Platte river Pottowatomie prairie Pratt President Young Prophet rest returned road Rocky Mountains route Salt Lake City Salt Lake valley season sent shelter sick snow South Pass south side spring storms stream suffering Sutter's Fort Sweetwater teams temple thousand timber tion traveled twelve wilderness Willard Richards Winter Quarters
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Página 72 - Here among the dock and rushes, sheltered only by the darkness, without roof between them and the sky, I came upon a crowd of several hundred human creatures, whom my movements roused from uneasy slumber upon the ground. "Passing these on my way to the light, I found it came from a tallow candle in a paper funnel shade, such as is used by street...
Página 70 - Though these men were generally more or less under the influence of ardent spirits, after I had explained myself as a passing stranger, they seemed anxious to gain my good opinion. They told...
Página 73 - They could not satisfy the feeble cravings of their sick : they had not bread to quiet the fractious hunger-cries of their children. Mothers and babes, daughters and grand-parents, all of them alike, were bivouacked in tatters, wanting even covering to comfort those whom the sick shiver of fever was searching to the marrow.
Página 12 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Página 68 - ... its bright new dwellings, set in cool green gardens ranging up around a stately dome-shaped hill which was crowned by a noble marble edifice, whose high tapering spire was radiant with white and gold. The city appeared to cover several miles, and beyond it, in the background, there rolled ofi a fair country chequered by the careful lines of fruitful husbandry.
Página 53 - Riding about three or four miles through beautiful prairies, I came suddenly to some round and sloping hills, grassy and crowned with beautiful groves of timber; while alternate open groves and forests seemed blended in all the beauty and harmony of an English park. While beneath and beyond, on the West, rolled a main branch of Grand River, with its rich bottoms of alternate forest and prairie.
Página 70 - As far as the eye could reach, they stretched away — they sleeping, too, in the hazy air of autumn. Only two portions of the city seemed to suggest the import of this mysterious solitude. On the...
Página 182 - How quiet, how still, how free from excitement we live! The legislation of our high council, the decision of some judge or court of the church, a meeting, a dance, a visit, an exploring tour, the arrival...
Página 69 - ... as if walking down the aisle of a country church, .to avoid rousing irreverent echoes from the naked floors. On the outskirts of the town was the city graveyard. But there was no record of plague there, nor did it in anywise differ much from other Protestant American cemeteries.
Página 70 - On the eastern suburb the houses looking out upon the country showed, by their splintered woodwork and walls battered to the foundation, that they had lately been the mark of a destructive cannonade. And in and around the splendid Temple, which had been the chief object of my admiration, armed me» were barracked, surrounded by their stacks of musketry and pieces of heavy ordnance.