| Show but today help Mother to get needful and moved so many times many miles She must she had no time tc think and also help her with the children the unyoked so were hidden among Father soon the along rocks and brush the that grasses dry for search could they camp from away cattle the herded and oxen brothers older her and Father while unpacked things creek and leaves dried of campfire had burning and then brightly at first smoking twigs to make the sack of flour was getting while Mother some me these dusty We ll thing have no milk to eat How that until but with all biscuits some for the dratted cow gets need thirteen-year-old hungry happy was She also and pans smell the air fresh this some felt Jane Sarah wash to need creek the from water bring and bucket brass that take Jane Sarah biscuits plus the idez of cd made her even of th wood fire more hungry She could hardly wait until the supper of boiled potatoes and biscuits baked in the iron kettle was done Excitement was all around her as the settlers called to one another Even Molly their cow bawling for her lost calf sounded exciting but lonely For several weeks her family and the other settlers had been traveling south to find this valley of of to to the Sanpitch Indians Chicf Walker with some his braves had ridden their ponies to Salt Lake pow-wow with Brigham Young to get his consent send white men to teach them how to plant and take care of themselves Deep down in his chief also thought about the ponies settlers would bring with them In where Sanpete they they argued where had to stopped make Finally Father Morley said as in the distance There is the In will close build proximity our to City that It and at mind the cattle Shumway crafty the Springs settlement he pointed end of our hill God took three tohill journey willing days for we all the settlers to arrive at this conclusion and perhaps that was the reason history says The first pioneers arrived in Manti on November 19th while other Navsmber 27nd 1849 69 |
