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years before.I9The city of Winter Quarters (now Omaha, Nebraska), where some of the people from Nauvoo settled, was across the Missouri River on the west bank. Weakened by the long trek, the Inhabitants were plagued by disease but were still able to leave in the spring. Three hundred fresh graves appeared in the cemetery outside Winter Quarters during that cold winter. When the Lewis and Clark expedition passed there in 1804, they recorded that they stopped at a hill-surrounded spot overlooking the Missouri River to hold a council with the Indians. This spot became known as Council W or Council Bluff In 1846 the Mormons settled on the site and built Kanesville. In 1853 the name of Kanesville was changed to Council Bluffs. During the California gold rush of 184950, the city became one of the chief outfitting points for gold seekers as well as the Mormon settlers. About the time Henry was in Kanesville, the population stood at approximately 7,000 people; however, many people stayed there just long enough to earn sutficient money to get outfitted to leave, making the population highly unstable. It is difficult to conceive how the L.D.S. converts could ever have made a one-thousand-mile trip across the plains and mountains to Utah without this stopping place where they could rest, make repairs, and lay in supplies. At this time the whole of the Pottowattamie County where Kanesville was situated, as well as considerable adjoining territory, was under the exclusive control of the Mormons. There was such a rush of emigrants and gold seekers westward that sometimes they would have to wait for days just to ferry across the Missouri River." The Latter-day Saints who gathered there were urged to collect seeds, grain, food, shrubbery, trees, the best stock of beasts and fowl, the best tools and farming utensils of every description, spinning wheels and looms, and every other article that would be needed to survive during their travels and in settling in a new territory. Therefore, Henry began gathering his supplies to make ready for the journey westward. Henry left Kanesville on June 3, with the first company of emigrating Saints for the traveling season of 1850 which consisted of There were ten such companies that 206 persons and 5 l ~ a g o n s . ~ ' left within a month. Milo Andrus, the man who crossed the ocean on
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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