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Show 53 She was packing flour, a side of bacon, some dried apples and peaches into the woman's sack all the while, some butter and eggs. "No more, " she said, and the woman departed. If Mama gave them dresses they put them on over whatever clothes they were already wearing then and there. Sometimes they wore several. Mama knew the story of Sally, who had been raised in the household of Brigham Young, and Kanosh died when Papa was about thirteen years old, so he knew the old Chief. When KSL ran a series of Indian stories about the Indians, among which was the story of Sally and Kanosh, the old timers around the town which had been named for him got up in arms because it was inaccurate. I was able to visit these and piece together the account from eye-witnesses to refute, I think once and for all, the story that Sally was murdered by one of Kanosh's other wives,, Betsikin. (The Truth About Sally Kanosh, which was printed in the Utah Magazine in the 1940's,i) Kanosh was a forward-looking chief in the time of Brigham Young, who embraced the ways of the white man, encouraged his people to plow and plant and harvest and to learn the skills of the white men. He admired Brigham Young, accepted the Gospel and went through the LDS Temple at Salt Lake City. He had a past history of trouble with his wives. His first wife, Julia, went insane at the birth of her first child, who also died. Kanosh was away and the superstitious Indians dragged her to death behind horses to exorcise the evil spirits afflicting her. |
