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some fifty other brethren and sisters for Salt Lake Valley. There were nineteen wagons in the company, all ox teams. I had two yokes of cattle and one wagon and three passengers with their luggage and provisions. The passengers were Sister Sinclair (a widow) and her daughter, Jane, and Brother, Richard Newness. Sister Sinclair was a very worthy woman from North Shields whose husband had been a sea captain. She and her daughter had come as far as Florence but, for want of means, could not proceed any firther and, as she had been very generous in entertaining the Elders for many years, I felt it to be my duty to assist them by taking them with me. Brother Newness, who gave me forty dollars for his passage and provisions, and I slept on the ground under the wagon al the distance of a thousand miles l over the plains, and widow Sinclair and her daughter slept on my feather bed in the wagon. We encountered many heavy thunder storms during the journey and sometimes the water would run under our bed under the wagon. We camped on the Big Pappio Creek the first night from Florence and effected an organization of which I was Chaplain. July 19: We crossed the river in the afternoon which is a very difficult stream to cross owing to the quicksand. We had to hitch from six to eight yoke of cattle to each wagon and we all got over safe by dark. - I waded the river, which is about half a mile wide with very swift current, seven times. July 3 1: During the last five days we have seen an immense quantity of Buffaloes--the Platte Valley has been literally black with them. We were compelled to stop our train a number of times for them to get out of the way as we were fearful of our cattle becoming frightened and stampeding. Once a very large bull buffalo was alone behind the main herd of several
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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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