. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . despatched to bring the waiting Saints at length they arrived, they were met with gladness,and given the warmest welcome. The people in Salt LakeCity opened their houses to them, and took them gladly in,giving them the best and the kindest care. Those ofthe Hand-Cart companies, who had come in first, crowdedround them, and met them with tears of rejoicing, in which MEETING OF HAND-CART COMPANIES. 221 sorrow mingled. It w
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . despatched to bring the waiting Saints at length they arrived, they were met with gladness,and given the warmest welcome. The people in Salt LakeCity opened their houses to them, and took them gladly in,giving them the best and the kindest care. Those ofthe Hand-Cart companies, who had come in first, crowdedround them, and met them with tears of rejoicing, in which MEETING OF HAND-CART COMPANIES. 221 sorrow mingled. It was then that they began to realizetheir loss. As one after another of their old companionscame up, and missing some familiar face, inquired for thefriend so dearly beloved, always the same sad answer came— Died on the Plains. Sixty-seven were left on the wayfrom the Missouri River to the Valley, which was aboutone sixth of the number which started. I remember distinctly when these companies came in;their wretched condition impressed me at the time, andI have seen many of them since, poor crippled crea-tures, stumping about the city, trying to do enough work. Arrival of Hand-Cart Companies at Salt Lake City. to keep soul and body together; more than that, they werenot able to do. I have heard, too, from some of them, themost harrowing stories of their journey, that terrible, fataljourney, which was one of the very worst blunders that thePrince of Blunderers, Brigham Young, ever made. The recollection is made more vivid because my young-est brother, Edward, who went out with a team to assist theemigrants, got lost in the snow, and for a week wesupposed him to be dead. After wandering for some daysin the mountains, with both feet badly frozen, he wasfound by a mountaineer named Battiste, who kept him, 222 THE PROPHETS DISINTERESTED GENEROSITY. and cared for him most kindly, until the arrival of m}^father, who had heard, while with the train, that he wasmissing, and had gone at
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