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

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As I walked throtigh the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS B RIGHAM YOUNG, "President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints," makes an annual journey of inspec- tion south, visiting the settlements of his people from the Great Salt Lake to the Arizona border. My husband was invited to join his party last winter, and I accompanied him with my two children, boys of eight and ten.' We left Salt Lake City early one December morning, while the stars were still shining in the frosty dawn. At the depot a crowd of Mormons were assembled to see their leader off, and a committee of them filled the special car, on the Utah Southern Railroad, in which we made the first stage of our journey. We lThe Kane party consisted of General Thomas L. Kane; his wife, Elizabeth Wood Kane; two sons, Evan (Evy) and Elisha (Willie); and a black servant, John. Other members of the party were: Brigham Young, a wife and daughter; Lorenzo Dow Young, a wife and fourteen-year-old son; Amos Milton Musser, assistant to Brigham Young and superintendent of the Deseret Telegraph Company, and his wife; Elijah F. Sheets, fifty years a Mormon bishop and close business associate of Brigham Young; William C. Staines (Elder Potto or Potteau) the cripple fre- quently referred to by Mrs. Kane; and a telegrapher-probably William A. C. Bryan. The party left Salt Lake on December 12, 1872, via the Utah Southern Railroad which was completed as far as Lehi, Utah County, September 1872. I