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

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the Mormons is not clear. Undoubtedly, the reception accorded him by the Mormons who did "everything now that goodness & kindness of people in humble life can do for me, you may rely upon it will be done. Something or other every hour brings me in the way of a good turn from some woman or child; . . ." (Letter to his father and mother dated Mormon Camp on the Little Papillon, July 24, 1846.) He had written previously on July 20 and 22, "I am going to devote much of [my] time when I come home to the Mormons. The book I proposed for my profit, I have not the materials to write, but I will write one for their vindication." He hoped "to manoeuvre the newspapers and write a book" in their defense because he felt that if public opinion were not changed before the Mormons moved to Sacra- mento, the mob scenes of Missouri and Illinois would be enacted all over again with the Mormons having no place to go-"They can't part the ocean as the Israelites did the Red Sea." Always fragile and sickly, Kane succumbed to the rigors of the rugged life he was sharing with the Mormons in their flight across Iowa. He contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was bedfast for several weeks-being nursed back to health by a very solicitous Mormon communitv. After regaining strength enough to travel, Kane returned to his home where he took up duties in the law for which he was trained and became active in anti-slaverv movements and the Free Soil party. But he did not forget his commitment to the Mormons. He did use his pen to set down their beliefs and the `causes for their persecutions. Perhaps his best effort and greatest opportunity came with an invitation to address the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on March 27, 1850. The subject he xi