After planting crops and building cabins, Wilford leaves Salt Lake Valley to return to Winter Quarters.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
October 26, 1847 ~ Tuesday
26th We travled to day 20 miles & camped at the old Pawnee
Missionary Station whare we stoped going up the missionaris had
been reinstated & built several buildings during the summer but
the Sioux had come down & drove them of off again we put
our Horses into A small patch of oats we went through the cor[n] [page covered]
fields that had been gatherd to try to glean a little corn for our
Horses I worked 3 Hours & got 1 1/2 bushels of ears distance of the day 20 [miles]
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Wilford arrives in Council Bluffs/Kanesville, Iowa.
Log tabernacle built in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
First Presidency reorganized with Brigham Young as President of the Church.