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Day in the Life

Feb 1, 1880

Journal Entry

February 01, 1880 ~ Sunday

Feb 1, 1880. It was a clear plesant Morning we drove 25 Mils
to Sunset. Thus I have spent 11 days in the Mountains in the
Midst of the Driving snow making my bed on the ground in the
shepherds tent and in the open air surrounded with the drifting
snows of a riged winter I eat my bread & meat twice a day with
thanksgiving and drank the cold snow water and Enjoyed the best
of health. when I left sunset I had a severe cold on my Lungs and after
being 2 days in the Mountains it Entirely left me and although I
was several Days in the saddle from 8 to 10 hours with the cold
North wind and snow blowing in my face, I would naturly have
supposed that I would have frozen yet I did not suffer but vary little

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Sunset, Apache County, Arizona Territory

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Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
Feb 1. It was a clear plesant Morning we hitched up our team & drove to Sunset. Thus I have spent 11 days in the Mo 25 M[iles] Mountains in the Midst of the Driving snow making my bed on the ground in the shepherds tent & in the open air surrounded with the Drifting snows of the rigid winter, I eat my bread & Meat twice a day with thanksgiving and Drank the cold snow water
Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
And enjoyed the best of Health I left Sunset with a severe cold on my Lungs and after being 2 days in the Mountains it had entirely Left me And although I was several Days from 8 to 10 Hours in the Saddle with the theCold North wind and the snow blowing in my face and I would naturly have supposed that I would have half froze to Dealth yet I did not suffer but vary little with the cold which seemed remarkable to me considdering my age having passed through seventy th[r]ee winters On my arival at Sunset I found a package of 18 Letters awaiting me from George Reynolds John Jaques, Henry A. Woodruff, M F Farnsworth James G Bleak 2, J. D. T. McAllister, D H. Cannon, G. Q. Cannon G Teasdale, L. John Nuttall, Warren M Johnson, Sarah & Sylvia & and Heber L Thompson, A. M. Tenney, R Alread, & Samuel E Lewis which I read with much Interest I attended the evening Meeting at Sunset and had 4 Letters read from Brother Reynolds, McAllister, Bleak and Farnsworth I also addressed the Saints and spoke plain unto them of the signs of the times 25 M[iles]

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1880
Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
January 26, 1880
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.

Feb 1, 1880