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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. 6 The country round about view of shutting off re concerted action on the part of the treat and of preventing any numbered several in the different thousands who Mormcns, already freedom and be protected. Far West was guarded by militia with enjoy some a counties of Missouri. pale of this military cordon some risk in securing However, hunger compelled It was during the venture of a journey to food for their families. one of these mills, a distance of twelve miles, on which Myron accompanied his father. "On our return," Myron says, "we saw the state militia coming." The violence which they had committed on the Saints wherever they had found them was a warning to the father, who knew that trouble was awaiting him and his son. The father, however, sought to spare his boy, and warned him to leave the wagon, conceal himself and get back home the best he could. and give informaticn to the family. "I ran for the brush, which here and there had been stacked up by the Saints who were clearing the land and burning the brush. These great brush piles furnished a means of escape for more than The grist mills were without the some men one, and into militia was one gone. where I remained .. to take of them I crawled and remained there until the I found my way to the home of the Miner's, night, and wandered about the next day, over concealing myself as best 1 could, and reached home about eight 0' clock in the evening. My father was struck over the head with a gun and was taken prisoner, but the blood streaming from the wound gave him such a horrifying appearance that his captors evidently had no relish for his company, and turned him loose to His condition, not so make his way home the best he could. the same horrifying im unlike that of many others, did not create isolated case. On an it been that it would have done had pression reaching home, thankful that his life was spared him, his family completely re cared for his wounds and nursed him until he had covered." DAYS OF NAUVOO. Myron, "is that we left Far West, poor equipments and the inclemency of and that on account of until March, 1839, to reach lllinois; and the weather, it took us "My recollection, " says our |
