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Show Albert and Myron Join the Battalion other nine had ninety. The government furnished apiece for our journey of a thousand miles. 127 us ten pounds we reached the junction of the Sweetwater and the Platte, our flour gave out entirely, but we had the good fortune to kill a large elk, and for eight days we lived on that, eating two meals a day, each of which consisted of a piece of dried elk about as large as When two of my fingers. At the end of eight days we reached the buffalo country. When we drove up to the top of one of the big sand hills going down the Platte, as far as the eye could see there was one continuous herd of buffalos. About ten o'clock in the morning we struck camp and began killing those animals, until we had secured nineteen. The excitement was so great that we did not stop to eat that day until eleven o'clock that night. We ate the meat as one would bread and and I think it was the best meal I ever had in my life. milk, From this place on journey, though unsatisfactory. the to Winter Quarters we had sufficient meat for the continuous diet of meat became somewhat 11 William Clayton, the journalist who was with the Battalion on its return to Winter Quarters, made this entry: group We have been prospered in our journey home and have made the trip in nine weeks and three days including a week's delay waiting for the Twelve and killing buffaloes. Our health has been remarkably good, but we have lacked provisions, many of us subsisting for weeks on dry buffalo Eliza meat alone.> Partridge Lyman recorded the arrival of Myron in Winter Quarters as follows: "When we came home at night, [October 21, 1847] met Myron Tanner, just come from the mountains, [Rocky Mountains]. We were much rejoiced to see him as they had been out long and suffered much." Chapter Ten 1 - Notes Jenson, Historical Record, vol. 8, pp 905-6. A full account follows. 2Roberts, Comprehensive History, vol. 3, chapter 63, 64 and 65. Roberts, Documentary History, vol. 7, pp. 611-15. There is a vast literature on the subject. 3Many families were left without a husband and father. President Young des ignated eighty-seven men as "bishops" to look after such families. Iowa Manuscript, July 17, 1846. +Myron Tanner, Biography, p. 9. |
