| Show ON TO MANTI Leah Lyman Manti Utah First Place Azariah Utah Tuttle The the team paid relaxed The barking and his of announced was dogs attention drooped family more no stopped also suggestive The their in The real and in front their of sheer but oxen exhaustion mountain walking Fort arrival unexcitable heads tired than wagon roads uphill had and been riding down had been the family custom Whenever it was safe Azariahaging mother Eleanor Mills Tuttle drove the team so that he could walk with his wife Ann Mabbot Tuttle and their two children thirteen-year-old Alexander and Elizabeth Ann age nine push with all cross seat with just behind their gully might Only to when surmount they did they all get into the wagon her husband to catch The Tuttles while the in his came rough in produce hill sight of ox the fort Ann sat in the spring mother and the children sat view had not been prepared the first company of found work among the pay Often they had to to come west with 1847 Both Azariah and John had farmers of Missouri taking their wagons and oxen Now the summer of 1852 found them traveling with Bishop Howellwagon train They had but left happy their After Battalion he youngest was brother mustered he had joined out some trappers Luther Terry of Mormon the busy forseason From this he obtained enough means to assist in buildingflour mill needed badly by the Saints When the wagon train reached Salt Lake City President Young directed some to Fort Utah in Utah Valley where the city of Provo was being settled John guess this His in drew wife other before them and showed harvest The and he beside All about valley and farmers such as remained were The at its mountains his exclaimed They breathed time steep up children wagon looked the wagon 1is home the air his brother he jumped silent as enraptured from did with the the wagon those scene deeply of the fresh mountain golden best of It was were as rays still they had the setting sun mid-September in their never fields before seen |
