Day in the Life
Journal Entry
August 03, 1860 ~ Friday
Aug 1st, 2 & 3 I spent the time Harvesting wheat. I have 8 Acres of wheat
and I think the best Taos wheat I have ever raised I ploughed my
land deep & put on 120 lbs of seed wheat to the Acre I whashed the wheat
clean skum off all light wheat then limed it & sowed it dreged the
land thoroughly then rolled it & I think I will have 50 Bushels of wheat
good & clean without smut to the acre we had a hard rain storm in the evening
garden & premises Blacksmith shop &c He then visited the Historians
office G A. Smith gave him an outline of the Mormon war with the
United States & a history of affairs for the Last 5 years in Utah he is
writing & publishing Extensively he is a free noble minded man he has
traveled so etensively that he has cast of[f] that cloak of prejudice and
superstition which most men have against all who do not embrace ther
own political & religious faith. He will tell the truth about all men &
things as far as he can obtain it I gave him an invitation to call upon
me. We received the Eastern mail. We obtained papers & I got one
good Letter from Capt Gibson who spoke of his travels in visiting
the Saints in the Eastern country nhe wrote in a vary good spirit
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Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1433 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Burton, Richard F.
1821-1890
6 mentions
Gibson, Walter Murray
16 Jan 1822 - 21 Jan 1888
38 mentions
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