Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

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In all Kane proceeded west armed with nineteen letters of introduction including one from the governor of Pennsylvania. But his high hopes were soon dashed to pieces when he met the Mormons and learned they were not going to push on to Cali- fornia in 1846. The delay of a year would put him on the scene too late, he thought, to gain the advantage of being in California with the friendly Mormons when California was ceded to the United States. His grief and disappointment were apparent in a letter to his father dated June 29, 1846, from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. My Dear Father, My evil fortune still pursues. [The Mormons are not going to California this year.] Adieu book, honour, money -evervthing I hoped. I have to battle with mortification 8~ disappointment of the severest because most unlooked for kind. Good Lord only could have seen that my con- dition was to be as it is-again the same worthless invalid I have been-but in debt. One week after the letter to his father, Thomas in writing to his mother (July 3, I 846) h s owed the humanitarism and ideal- ism which have been the principal characteristics attributed to him. One part of my unselfish objects has been obtained. Government has befriended the poor Mormons by taking five hundred of them into service, and they will draw raysions [sic] immediately. The other part, the securing their fidelity to the United States alone remains. Exactly what event changed Thomas Kane's plan of using the Mormons to gain advantages for himself to one of serving X