Day in the Life

Jan 29, 1880

Journal Entry

January 29, 1880 ~ Thursday

Jan 29. It was clear this morning but vary cold. We left camp
and rode 8 miles to a dry gulch went 8 mils up the gulch and camped
under a cedar in the open canopy of heaven with our beds covered with drifting snow 16 m[iles]

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Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
29. It was clear this morning but vary cold We left camp & drove 8 miles to a dry Gulch we then went 8 mils up the gulch & crossed and drove 1 miles and camped under a cedar in the open
Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
canopy of Heaven with our beds surrounded with the Drifting snow of the Mountains Br Whiting arrived in the evening Distance 15 M[iles]

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Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.

Jan 29, 1880