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pleasant meeting. August 23: We met Brother Parks with four yoke of oxen to render assistance to those who most needed it. We camped near to the station on Horseshoe Creek. There are some half dozen log houses erected here with an excellent corral for the purpose of forming a station on the l i e between Salt Lake and the Missouri River for the benefit of a carrying company, called the Y X Company, which had been organized in Salt Lake City by President Brigham Young. It would have, evidently, been a most excellent thing if the U.S. Government had let us alone, but, 'Uncle Sam' is sending 4000 troops to Salt Lake with the intention of killing and destroying the Saints of God. President Young, however, was determined that they should not have their own way in that matter. In consequence of this army coming, President Young gave orders to vacate all the stations and burn the houses and corrals. We held a meeting in the evening with Brother Bennett and the brethren who decided to return with us to Salt Lake. The Company Henry was traveling with met seventy people with twenty-eight horses and ox teams at Deer Creek on August 28. This group traveled on with them. They passed the Devil's Gate station on September 2, and camped along the Sweetwater River. Henry reflected that he "saw some vety interesting and romantic scenery while alone-inthis sequestered and remote part of the earth where the footprints of white man seldom were seen, and nothing had been molested since it roUed out of the hands of the Creator " The Company met two men on horseback, Brothers Bennett and Holly, who said they had been to Fort Laramie as spies, pretending they were gold diggers returning to California. They had met several hundred government troops and conversed with the officers who said the soldiers were going to Salt Lake to hand Brother Brigham and Heber C. Kimball and others their writs, and they swore and cursed
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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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