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Show Another Try for a 101 Home later to be known as Nauvoo. Doctor Isaac Galland, a gentleman of some influence living at the small settlement on the east banks of the Mississippi River, about ten miles above Keokuk, merce, prices and at credit and interest Doctor Galland also had at his disposal advantageous. land in of immense tract an Iowa, called the "Half-breed Tract." This was located near the confluence of the Des Moines and the Mississippi rivers, and about four miles south of Montrose and eight offered the land at reasonable rates very 7 miles north of Keokuk. and sold for next to new home and with their their nothing, usual energy set to work. Nathan tells us that Sidney and John Joshua settled with their father John and they worked together." Since land here was in plentiful supply the Tanners chose this as They soon fenced about six hundred acres, of which two hundred plowed and planted to crops and the balance used as meadow and pasture land. Things were looking up for the Tanners; they would be in this location for six years with relatively little trouble from mobs as they were removed both from Missouri, scene of the recent trouble, and Illinois, where future troubles were to The Tanners would harvest six crops from this land, which occur. was good news not only to the family but others as will be shown." were Myron paints a dismal picture of the years at Montrose, He says: early which the author feels is much overdrawn. distinctly remember that during these years our diet consisted almost exclusively of corn bread and milk, and not unfrequently the corn meal gave out and our meals were still further reduced. When the green corn came around and we grew potatoes, we were I very able to add another article to our diet." Myron undoubtedly passed through a season or two of such poverty, but John Tanner had tremendous recuperative ability, and once out of reach of mobs it did not take him long to produce food for his large family. He would have six relatively peaceful years in Montrose. There were, however, a couple of things which happened during these years which detracted from the pastoral tranquility. To put it in Myron's words: We were harassed payment of a by note of the demands made upon my father for the $30,000 which he had endorsed for the Prophet |
