Letter to John Steele, 3 August 1888
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
Elder John Steele,
Toquerville.
Dear Brother:
Your very interesting favor of the 30th. of July has
been received and read with great pleasure.
Yours has been indeed a pioneer and a busy life, and
you are in a position now to give much valuable counsel to the rising generation,
and to describe to them the hardships and privations and the shifts which the
settlers of this country had to contend with and to resort to in the beginning.
A new generation is now upon the scene, and though they hear occasionally con-
cerning the work of the pioneers and the difficulties they had to contend with,
still, in this city particularly, their ideas are exceedingly vague respecting
these matters, and the men and women who can give them information from their
personal experiences are fast passing away. There are really but few left.
I am glad that you have mentioned the birth of your
daughter; for there is another claimant for the honor of being the first white
child born in the Valley after the arrival of the Pioneers. As I now remember
