Letter to Lot Smith, 17 April 1883
Salt Lake City, .
Lot Smith.
Dear Brother:
I received
your very welcome letter of March 9th,
which I read with much interest;
it is the only information I have
received concerning Bros. Young and
Grant's travels in Arizona. I have
had three short notes from them, but
they gave me no account of their
travels. Br. Grant spoke of attending
the funeral of your little son.
I feel interested in the labor of
the brethren among the Lamanites of
all that country. The Oribas and
Moquies are very dull and super-
stitious and hard of understanding
compared with the Navajoes, Zoonies,
Lagooneies, and Islatos. I am sor-
ry to hear of so much depredations
from the Apaches; there are some
renegades among them which will
