While
riding a steamboat on the Missouri River, coming home at the conclusion of his mission
in 1864, who did Jesse N. Smith run into?
A)
The First Presidency and their wives on their way to visit the
Hill Cumorah Pagent
B)
A non-member on his way to Utah to find Brigham Young in hopes
of determining what he must do to be saved
C)
General Custer on his way to Custer’s Last Stand
D)
Members of the Salt Lake Stake on their way to reenact the 9th
anniversary of the handcart experience
Yesterday’s answer:
B)
The cowboys
We
were now in the middle Gila Valley thickly strewn with ranches, and soon came
to a stone by the roadside, marking the boundary line between Arizona and New
Mexico. The valley was wide, the stream less sluggish than farther down, the
water bright and sparkling, the bottom beautifully timbered, the soil
apparently very fertile and still there seemed a lack of thrift. This was
explained when we learned the chills were prevailing. Met some 14 mule teams
loaded with timber for mining and building purposes. Every traveler we saw
carried a rifle to defend himself against Indians and cowboys, the latter
rather the worst.
Oliver
R. Smith, ed., The Journal of Jesse
Nathaniel Smith-1834-1906 (Provo: Jesse N. Smith Family Assn., 1970), 265.
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