Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . ^//EAK PART 11. SALT LAKE: INCIDENTS OF EARLYSETTLEMENT. SEC. I.—OUR HOME LIFE. 15.—THE OLD FORT. *It was in September, 1848, that the family arrived in SaltLake Valley and moved into a room of the Old Fort that hadbeen provided for them. This Old Fort had been commencedwhen Father w^as at Salt Lake on the first trip and was builton the square now called Pioneer Park. Howard R. go
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . ^//EAK PART 11. SALT LAKE: INCIDENTS OF EARLYSETTLEMENT. SEC. I.—OUR HOME LIFE. 15.—THE OLD FORT. *It was in September, 1848, that the family arrived in SaltLake Valley and moved into a room of the Old Fort that hadbeen provided for them. This Old Fort had been commencedwhen Father w^as at Salt Lake on the first trip and was builton the square now called Pioneer Park. Howard R. goes onto say: I remember the rainy season, when the sun was not seenfor nearly a month. The roof of our house was a shed roof,covered with inch lumber, plastered with clay on the roof had sagged so that there was quite a depression inthe center. This had filled with water and was leakingthrough to the room below. Heber C. Kimball called in to see how we were all get-ting along. He had not sat there long when the roof settledmore with a loud crack. Kimball jumped out of the door andcalled Mother to come out quick or the roof would fall onher. No she would not
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