History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . eclining in ApostleWoodruffs carriage, requested to have it turned upon the summitso that he might see those portions of the Valley that were now-visible. Gazing long and earnestly at the prospect, he exclaimed:Enough. This is the right plac
History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . eclining in ApostleWoodruffs carriage, requested to have it turned upon the summitso that he might see those portions of the Valley that were now-visible. Gazing long and earnestly at the prospect, he exclaimed:Enough. This is the right place. Drive on. That night the Presidents party encamped in a small birchgrove, whence issued a beautiful spring. It was about midwaybetween the Big and Little mountains, near the cozy canyon nooknow called Mountain Dell. Here, at Birch Spring, on the eveningof July 23rd, the party was joined by John Pack and Joseph Mat-thews, who had returned to report that the companies ahead had cuttheir way through the mouth of the canyon, entered and partlyexplored the Valley, and made choice of a spot for putting in was late in the forenoon of the day following—the memorajjle 24th—that the rear wagons rolled through the mouth of Emigration Can-yon, and Brigham Young, the founder of Utah, looked his first uponthe full glory of the Valley by the HISTORY OF UTAH. 325 CHAPTER XVIII. 1847. Pen picture of salt lake valley-how it looked to the PIONEERS-COXTBASTED impres-sions—ORSON PRATT AND ERASTUS SNOW THE FIRST EXPLORERS—THE CAMP ON CITY CREEK—PLOWING AND PLANTING—ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT-THE FIRST SABBATH SERVICE INTHE VALLEY-ORSON PRATts SERMON TO THE PIONEERS—BRIGHAM YOUNG LAYS DOWN THEI,.,,V—.POSTLE LYMAN AND ELDER BRANNAN ARRIVE-EXPLORING AND COLONIZING—ENSIGNPEAK NAMED-THE GREAT SALT LAKE VISITED—BLACK ROCK CHRISTENED—TOOELE VALLEY-UTAH LAKE SEEN-SALT LAKE CITY PLANNED AND LOCATED. f T WAS no Garden of the Hesperides upon which the PioneersI gazed that
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