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Show 295 ers, and in 1883 he was called to be a missionary to the Indians. Like Martineau, Smith was also among those sent into Mexico to purchase lands for new settlements. Despite his many worldly accomplishments, Jesse N. Smith was basically a farmer. It seems his biggest crop was his family, however. Smith was the husband of five wives and the father of forty-four children. During the 1880s he became one of the first men in Arizona to be prosecuted for violation of the Edmunds-Tucker Act which prohibited the practice of polygamy. Smith died at Ik Snowfalke in 1906, at the age of sixty-nine. Although they were not members of the White Mountain Expedition, Brigham Young, John C. Fremont, Elijah Barney Ward, and Albert Sidney Johnston were the parties most responsible for its occurence. The histories of the former two are an open book. The biographies of Johnston and Ward are of interest, although it is not likely either man was aware of the 1858 expedition into the desert. Both men met violent, premature deaths. Johnston, whose zeal to chastise the Mormon "rebels" was a major factor in the decision to abandon Salt Lake City and search for the new gathering place, resigned from the U.S. Army in 1861 to take a commision in the Confederate army. Johnston's career was brilliant but short lived. While commanding the southern forces at Shiloh, he was shot and killed on April 6, 1862. Elijah Barney, the mountain man who promoted the "oasis theory" to almost everyone who would listen, was baptized into the Mormon church in I85O. In I853 he was a settler of Fort Supply in present-day Wyoming. The place was abandoned and burned, however, in preparation for the approach of Johnston's army. During the Utah War Ward moved south with the general tide and settled in Payson, Utah. Fearing for her life, at this time, Ward's Indian wife returned to her people until the "war" was over. But while living among her people, she took sick and |
