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Show 72 John Tanner and His Family chains. He might need not need these extras, but other travelers might help and he ahead and looks who wanted to be prepared. It is the rare person Tanner John but goes prepared for all the exigencies which may arise, the learned him with was one who did. worked his And sons who tugs, hamestraps, kingpins, queen bolts, and tow lessons well. When George Albert Smith got ready to move from the Missouri River to the Salt Lake Valley in 1849, he was happy to have in his company Myron Tanner, who though only twenty-one years of age, knew how to manage men and animals better than most men. Myron tells the story and we quote: on my arrival at Kanesville informed me in need of my services, and put me in charge of his ten. Ezra T. Benson had fifteen wagons under his supervision, and we had twelve. There was considerable delay in crossing the Missouri, and George A. Smith becoming impatient put the management of Brother that he George A. Smith was the teams and outfit in my charge, in order to facilitate and hasten the work. My work was so satisfactory, that Brother George A. subsequently gave over to me me much of the responsibility of con ducting the teams across the plains, as I was familiar with horses and cattle, with which I had worked all my life. As illustration of the difficulties we had, I may say here that of these brethren whose lives had been given largely to the ministry were hardly familiar with team work and many of those who were driving had little experience. an some Benson at the outset took the lead. He would permit his muddy places where they became fastened and after struggling for sometime in the mud all the time the wheels he would finally put on an becoming more difficult to extract extra team in order to pull out the wagon. Apostle men to drive into - - Finally I prevailed upon him and George A. Smith to give me a free hand in the management of the teams. After that, whenever we reached a place where I thought we were likely to be stuck I would double team and put the wagons through, one at a time. Such a method was so much more expeditious than waiting until the wagons became fastened in the mud and then trying to pull them out. 1 It cluding was also easier nerves. on teams, harness, and everything else, in |
