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Show 87 forecastle. "I The felt joy George Cunningham, the by emigrant an arrivals is well new expressed by of 1856: How well I remember the first step that I took on American soil! How thrilled I was to be in the land of the free- -the land of promise! I had been taught to believe it was the land of promise blessed above boy of fifteen years, Just aged as ' enjoyed.2 I then with the as departure great efficiency, debarkation church by fitted out with too, The agents lands, and although only "Babylon" to Utah.3 The lLyon, enquirers. Diary of 4 ... and agents the transportation also acted them from s was and as man- unde just met at the new a blessings organized were to it that saw emigrants, protecting and the curious was the arrival in "Zion" emigrant ships who for the thanking God appropriate provisions overland journey arrived from so efficient management. nwly all other I felt like port of arrivals for the were long guardians of the ha r p s t e r s , apostates A number of encounters between dis sat- International, April 13, 1853. 2George History, Cunningham, "Autobiography," in Treaeures of Pioneer Kate B. Carter (6 vols., Salt Lake City, Daughters Pioneers, 1952-6), V, 253 edited of the Utah 3Letter, by Woodruff, January 5, emigrants entered the United States through New Orleans and from there proceeded inland via the waterwa y to the outfitting points such as Keokuk, Iowa, and Westport, Missouri. To avoid cholera and other health problems of the river New route, the emigrants after 1855 entered through York, and oston See Millenmal Star, and made their way to the outfitting points by rail. 1857. Note: XVIII, 12.1 Daniel D. From ff.; Mulder, 4Millennial Mc Ar t hu r to Wilford 1840 to 1855 Mormon Star, op. X, cit., 169, 337. 256; Hamilton, Journal, November 27, 1856. |
