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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. The treatment teredo proved effectual, 11 and within two months very greatly improved." Speaking of the condition of his feet and legs, he said: "1 was very greatly surprised to find after 1 that 1 was unable to was from the ground, jump or lift at the same time both of my feet and in this condition 1 remained for something like four months. Pueblo, it they should not accompany the Battalion on its way to California. Learning that the pioneers were something to the north of them, they took up their march in the direction of Laramie, but too late to overtake the pioneers. Learning that part of the Battalion was on its way to meet the pioneers, the latter sent Amasa Lyman to meet this remnant of the Battalion, Owing was to the sickness of those who wintered at determined that which he found abcut where Denver is now. Thev followed on after the pioneers, and reached Salt Lake valley on the 27th of July, 1847. "At the mouth of Emigration Canyon," said Myron Tanner, flag and went in with drums beating, where Salt "we unfurled the City now stands on City Creek. When we arrived we found the a bowery built, and about five acres of ground broken up about now stands." house Little's Feramorz where place Lake RETURN TO WINTER QUARTERS. His stay in Salt Lake valley was of short duration, for in the following month of August he set out upon his return to the Mis " "There were ten of us, he said, "in mv mess in my soun river. reaching the Platte, 1 purchased one hundred wagon. Upon of flour, half of which 1 turned over to Amasa Lyman. The That left me sixty pounds, while the other nine had ninety. a of for our journey furnished us ten pounds apiece pounds government junction of the Sweetwater and the Platte, our flour gave out entirely, but we had the good fortune t:l kill a large elk, and for eight days we lived on that, of a piece of dried eating two meals a day, eacb of which consisted elk about as large as two of my fingers. "At the end of eight days we reached the buffalo country. hills going When we drove up to the top of one of those big sand thousand miles. When we reached the |
