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Historical Pioneer
Journals
Brigham Young Journals
April | May
| June | July
- April 1847
- April 4, 1847 -- Location:
Winter Quarters - 1014 miles left, Nebraska
- Captain Fremont's topographical map, letters, dancing, medicine
preparations, and disorderlyness.
- April 5, 1847 --
- First wagons leave, and concern about legal suits.
- April 6, 1847 --
- Sustained as official leader of the church.
- April 9, 1847 --
- Headed to the wagons who'd gone ahead.
- April 12, 1847 --
- Bulloch assigned to be the camp's journal keeper.
- April 14, 1847 --
- Returned the final time to the pioneer wagon camp.
- April 15, 1847 --
- Laid out instuctions on how the camp should be conducted.
- April 16, 1847 --
- Organizing into companies with captains.
- April 17, 1847 --
- Getting consensus on leadership and warning to be careful.
- April 19, 1847 --
- Daily routine.
- April 20, 1847 --
- Caught a mess of fish.
- April 21, 1847 --
- Guarding against livestock theft.
- April 22, 1847 --
- Reports of disgruntled Indians.
- April 23, 1847 --
- Corn field, quicksand and a burned out Pawnee town.
- April 24, 1847 --
- Difficulties fording a river with quicksand.
- April 25, 1847 --
- Sunday
- April 26, 1847 --
- Scare in the night.
- April 27, 1847 --
- Rainy, hot, and windy weather.
- April 28, 1847 --
- Dust and antelope.
- April 30, 1847 --
- Cold and little grass.
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- May 1847
- May 1, 1847 --
- Buffalo.
- May 3, 1847 --
- Blacksmithing, antelopes, and rain.
- May 4, 1847 --
- Letters back to Winter Quarters.
- May 6, 1847 --
- Lots of buffalo.
- May 7, 1847 --
- Game conservation.
- May 10, 1847 --
- Odometer made.
- May 19, 1847 --
- Rain.
- May 22, 1847 --
- Ancient Bluff Ruins.
- May 24, 1847 --
- Livestock report and a peace pipe.
- May 26, 1847 --
- Chimney Rock.
- May 29, 1847 --
- Thunder from the skies and from Brigham.
- May 30, 1847 --
- Repenting.
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- June 1847
- June 1, 1847 --
- Mormon Batallion deaths reported.
- June 2, 1847 --
- Sioux Indians.
- June 3, 1847 --
- Mormon Batallion will get counsel.
- June 4, 1847 --
- Ferry to Fort Laramie, compliments on group behavior, doctoring,
and new family joins company.
- June 5, 1847 --
- Thunder, lightning, and rain.
- June 6, 1847 --
- Non-mormon groups pass by, and it's raining.
- June 8, 1847 --
- Mention of Salt Lake and Utah countryside.
- June 9, 1847 --
- Race for a boat.
- June 10, 1847 --
- Trees, fish, and coal.
- June 11, 1847 --
- Missouri emigrants.
- June 12, 1847 --
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- June 14, 1847 --
- Ferrying the North Platte.
- June 16, 1847 --
- Planning ahead for future companies.
- June 17, 1847 --
- Earning money.
- June 18, 1847 --
- Ferrying for a profit.
- June 19, 1847 --
- Some left behind.
- June 20, 1847 --
- Greasewood Creek.
- June 21, 1847 --
- Devil's Gate.
- June 27, 1847 --
- Newspapers and unfavorable description of Salt Lake valley.
- June 28, 1847 --
- Jim Bridger and another unfavorable report about the Salt Lake
valley.
- June 30, 1847 --
- Brannan talks up California.
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- July 1847
- July 3, 1847 --
- Fever, fishing, rain, wind, thunder, and lightning.
- July 4, 1847 --
- Meeting up with some of the Mormon Battalion.
- July 7, 1847 --
- New clothes and a letter.
- July 12, 1847 --
- Brigham takes ill.
- July 13, 1847 --
- Orson Pratt group to go ahead.
- July 15, 1847 --
- Brigham joins up with main camp.
- July 18, 1847 --
- Planning ahead for planting crops.
- July 20, 1847 --
- Locations of the 3 groups.
- July 21, 1847 --
- Advance camp scouts to Salt Lake valley.
- July 22, 1847 --
- Advance and main company arrive.
- July 23, 1847 --
- Main company begins to till and plant. Brigham catches first
glimpse of the valley.
- July 24, 1847 --
- Entered the valley to crops being put into the ground.
- July 25, 1847 --
- Assessment of saftey record.
- July 26, 1847 --
- Planting, warm springs, Ensign Peak, and saline waters.
- July 28, 1847 --
- Exploring the valley, setting up the city landscape.
- July 29, 1847 --
- Some Mormon Battalion members arrive in the valley.
- July 30, 1847 --
- Rejoicing for the safe arrival of some of the Batalliion.
- July 31, 1847 --
- Summary of crops put in.
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