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Show t.hat" if the members of the Church should be, blown to the four winds and never' gathered again, he wisned them to remember that he had told them when and where to gather; and if they failed to do so to reme ier and bear him witness in the day of judgment rethat .' ceived such information and advice." they'had It evident hat hi in darker moments, Brigham Young, like relatve to the outcome of the great mig misgiVlngs ration movement Mountains" Racky , despite prophecies above. It s probable that at that time he did not know defnitely the destination of the movement which had to be ha:ted here for another year. seems other men,had "t? the, qaoed pioneer group, with Brigham Young, left Winter, Qua:ters April 14, 1847. He had. started with some 5 wagons on Apr1l 5th; ;)ut when he reached the Elkhorn river,. information came to him of the arrival of Elders Parley P. Pratt and John Taylor from he British Mission. He reted to Winter Quar The vanguard ters te rece1ve their report and to attend to other business.' and then again came to the Pioneer company some 12 miles west of the Elkhorn, and about 47 miles from Winter Quarters. April, the company was organized into groups'of tens, fifties,. and hundreds, with captains ereahb. On April 17th, a militacy organization of the whole was effected, On the 16th oof with Brigh Young as Lieutenant General---the captains of tens The Oregon TraU seems to were to serve in both organizations. Platte the side of south the ·River, and, at the hay followed crossed the South Fork and followed onward Fort Laramie in the present Wyo to about along the North Platte the to SWeetwater onfluence with the North ming, and; onward about then ascended to South Pass over the it which and along Platte, near Not far down Green River drainage. the down and Continental confluence of the two, Divide, slope, northerly branch,going tee main road forked, the right hand, or north of west to Fort Hall, a short distance ab?ve the site of the present Pocatello; and the southerly branch southwestward to Fort Bridger, ana t hen turning northward to the Green River gcbing Fort Hall. The Mormon Pioneers chose' to aseend the north side of the Platte River to Fo Laramie, even should they hav. to break' their own _L:Vt' , . '" yearts road. There a number of reasons for this:---The preY10us -Indiana along the burn_ been had or by-the recently grass -erop north side of the river, and at the·ttme the grazing for animals The was better along the old Oregon Trail to. the south or it. wes" but the vanguard and the themsel considered Pioneers, however, who would wilderness-breakers- for t re mass of Mormon emigrants fresh the and Springe Summ although the follow them during r; across the better than be would it was short for • themselves, grass rir tor the later emigrants. Again, at the time there were a W. Boggs, with whoa tbfl7 Lilburn number of companies---the Hon however during the earlier we,re 80 well acquainted, adv;ersell' J and with wass ·quarrelling between Missouri them, - ; persecutions, company, may hawe Donner party the of the experiences that would not factions of 1846, which' at times even broke into The Mormons were well-organized and travel with each other)e the "roa.d of peaee"---they were of suf and companies, or eyen among been not infrequent {note well-led; preferred members of the same ficient number to protect themselves from Indian attacks; and |
