Day in the Life

May 17, 1847

Journal Entry

May 17, 1847 ~ Monday

17th It is much more warm & plesant to day than usual our roa[d] [page covered]
hads been hard to day we came 2 1/2 miles through sandy bluffs, we
again struck the bottom 4 1/2 miles from our camping place but
the bottom was much softer than usual & many slues to cross
we crossed about one dozen streams to day of vary clear water
that come from springs in the Bluff from 1 to 10 feet across
them which run almost on the top of the ground without
any bank at all, with hard sand or gravel bottom, the water
however was not as cold as spring water generally is. the
Hunters brought in 3 Buffalo & it detained the camp some to
get them in, President Young was not pleased with it as
we had so much meet in camp already & they went out
without council. we saw vary large droves of deer to day in
the bottoms the most we have ever seen any day on the road
A young Fawn was picked up & brought into camp & kept
we travled in all to day 12 3/4 miles

I led the camp mostly through the Bluffs in the morning before
Before Brothers Young & Kimball came up we rode together
all day picking our roads

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3426 mentions
Apostle, Family
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1455 mentions
Apostle

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
The camp was called together and President Young sharply reproved the hunters for shooting so much meat detaining the camp and for taking more life than necessary and also the horsemen for their indifference in picking out the road. He said there were but two who had manifested any interest in helping him get the camp along Afterwards the horsemen went forward to pick out the road instead of going hunting and I did not hear a gun fired during the day

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May 17, 1847