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

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 051

off the glass; on the other, the plain spread out as on the last afternoon's journey,- "Wild and bare, Wide, wild, and open to the air, Which had built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray." There were no more teams for the Nevada mines in sight. Far ahead of us a light cloud of dust indicated President Young's carriage, seen across the desert like the smoke of a steamer at sea. A horseman rode back to bid us close up, for the other carriages toiled equally far behind us in the heavy sand. The children began to tire of the journey before it was fairly begun. As for me, I picked up a book that some one had thrust into the carriage as we were quitting Nephi. It was gayly bound, printed in worn type, on coarse paper, much thumbed, and was entitled: "Brigham Young's Destroying Angel. Being the Life, Confes- sions, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman. Written by Himself ." In the veracious pages of this work, I read that my gentle- looking host at Nephi had united with Mr. Hickman in mur- dering a party of six men. He had been particularly aided, too, by a demure gentleman who had pressed us to dine with him the preceding day; and whose wife's savory fried chicken had been highly extolled by those of our party who had accepted his hospitality. Mr. Hickman avers that they sank the bodies of two of their victims, with stones tied to their feet, in one of those "bottomless springs" we had noticed before coming to Nephi. And our halt at the Sevier crossing this day was to be made at