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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 49 |
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Show ESCORT A COMPANY TO CALIFORNIA. 47 The Indians took the loose stock, amounting to four hun-dred and eighty head, on the fifty mile desertJbeyond the Muddy. The brethren remained with the company, determined to assist in its defense, should the Indians attempt anything more than they had agreed. The company continued their journey safely to California. Brothers Knight and Leavitt returned to the Santa Clara. As soon as possible, I talked with the principal Indians engaged in this affair, and they agreed that the stock not killed should be given up. I wrote to the owners in Califor-nia, and they sent their agent, Mr. Lane, with whom I went to the Muddy, and the stock was delivered to him as the Indians had agreed. CHAPTER VII. PRESIDENT YOUNG REQUESTS ME TO PILOT A COMPANY TO CALIFORNIA SAVE A WHITE MAN FROM BEING TOR-TURED BY THE INDIANS INDIANS DETERMINED TO KILL THE COMPANY I PACIFY THEM ELDERS IRA HATCH AND DUDLEY LEAVITT SENTENCED TO BE KILLED BY THE MOHAVES ELDER HATCH SOFTENS THEIR HEARTS BY OFFERING A PRAYER ALLOWED TO ESCAPE ON FOOT. IN the winter season, my family usually lived at the Santa Clara settlement, thirty miles south of the Mountain Meadows, to which place they moved in the spring, to keep stock during the summer. Late in the autumn of 1857, a company came along on their way to California. They brought a letter from President Brigharn Young, directing me to see this company and their effects safely through to California. They were mostly mer-chants who had been doing business in Salt Lake City, and, |
