| Show znd rubbed her eyes Most every day since starting on the trek from Iowa her job had been to herd the cows but this morning father had said Neuman can herd the cattle today and you can ride in the wagon What pleasure walking to Salt Brigham it was to settle Sanpete The jolting and lulled her to sleep she and was her ing the and walking and voice of Father as to rest her feet after Valley bumping but now of as the the wagon wagon had stopped wide awake This was the moment that she family and the other settlers had been wait we stop father seat her all the long weary miles across the plains Lake City and then to follow President Youngdirections to pack up and move again where for Make laid placed his his jumped to the the wagon Such riding toward She could hear Morley their leader This is camp long hand ground rawvhide on the and excitement Silently Sarah whip rump then she on of watched the the nearest disappeared Jane had wagon ox alongside never felt before Always she had heard the words Move on until they became part of her life She hoped that they could stay here and havepermanent place to live her heart pounded with the thought that this place could be home Quickly she crawled over boxes and bedding to the high front seat of the wagon where she could see the Sanpete valley and know the feelings of excitement the settlers had in arriving at their long-anticipated destination The afternoon sun was having trouble getting through the heavy gray clouds that hung likehuge blanket above the West mountain The valley to the east north and and they looked south was surrounded by cold and lifeless The mountains big cotton wood trees that grew along the banks the were brown and bare while the rabbit sagebrush near the reach hand to and her scurried before wagons were so of creek brush and she could tall touch them Dry leaves the south wind warm the rustled and sultry against her face Everyone out This is the place Sarah Jone Qeard the words andfeeling of loneliness and aomesickness came over her They had traveled so 68 |
