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Show 348 Archives. 10. Historical Department Journal, 29 March I858. 11. Ibid., 5 April 1858. 12. Ibid., 3 April I858. Curiously, when the nation became aware of the exodus, many perceived it to be a sign that the Mormons would fight. Rather than viewing the move south as a flight, some press reports interpreted the move as an attempt to remove the women and children out of the firing line; See New York Herald as quoted in Gove, Utah Expedition, p. 213. 13. Bean to Young, 27 March 1858. 14. Ibid.; see also George W. Bean to Brigham Young 2 April I858, Brigham Young papers, L.D.S. Archives. 15. Bean to Young, 27 March I858 and 2 April I858. 16. Orson B. Adams, "Autobiography," Brigham Young University, pp. 17-18. 17. John D. Lee, Life, Confessions, and Execution, p. 6; and Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:174. 18. Isaac C. Haight, Diary (typescript of original), L.D.S. Archives, entry for 10 March I858; and Haight to Brigham Young, 24 March I858, Brigham Young Papers, L.D.S. Archives. 19. Haight to Young, 24 March 1858. 20. Bean to Young, 2 April 1858. 21. Volney King, "Millard County, I85I-I875," part 3, Utah Humanities Review 1 (July 1947), p. 265. Although King was not a member of the White Mountain Expedition, he was a resident of Fillmore at the time. Mashoquab variously spelled. 22.Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:4l, 42, 45. 23. Bean to Young, 2 April 1858. 24. Ibid. |