Day in the Life

Jun 16, 1847

Journal Entry

June 16, 1847 ~ Wednesday

16th About 20 men went down the river to day & dug out
two large canoes to cover over to make A ferry boat illegible
to ferry over the large companies of emegrants that have ariv[ed]
& are on the way President Young thought it wisdom to
to leave A number of the brethren here & keep a ferry
untill our companies came up emegrants will pay for ferrying

$1.50 cts per waggon pay in flour, atcows, Beans &c flour at $2.50 per
cwt cows $10. the brethren also made two new rafts & got quite
A number of our pioneer waggons over. I was quite unwell A part
of the day with Ague in the face I walked out however with O. Pratt
about 3 miles onto some of the bluffs to view the country we saw
mountains to the North towering into the clouds, we judged they were
not much short of 100 miles from us. we had our guns with us &
Hunted some I shot one Antelope cut his throat with a bullet &
He fell dead in his tracts. Br Pratt shot at Another but did not
get him. this was the first Antelope I ever Killed, I tried to back
him in to camp but could not do it well so I got two men to help
me. we had some Heavy squals of wind & some rain in the
Afternoon In the evening many of us went over the river to
tie up our horses & when one company was coming back in the
leather boat they filled it half full of water & came near
sinking

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1082 mentions
Apostle

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Platte River, unorganized U.S. Territory

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to see our flour & meal bags replenished in the midst of the black Hills as it did to have the children of Israel fed with manna in the wilderness [Exodus 16:11-15]. But the Lord has truly been with us on this Journey we have had peace & union in our midst, our Horses & cattle have been wonderfully preserved from death & Accident on the way & our waggons from Breaking down. Great good will grow out of this mission if we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God
~ Wilford Woodruff
I have taken great delight of late in reading the book of Mormon seeing the great & glorious things revealed & recorded in that book & that we are now trying to fulfill the great things or some of them that Lehi Nephi Alma, Moroni, Isaiah and many other prophets had in view in the last days in building up Zion, redeeming Israel, warning the Nations & sealing salvation upon the meek of the earth & laying a foundation that the earth may be prepared for the coming of the Mesiah.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Jun 16, 1847