The
first almanac printed in the Salt Lake Valley was in 1851, printed by W. W.
Phelps. What was the name of the almanac?
A)
LDS Almanac
B)
Great Salt Lake Almanac
C)
This is the Place Almanac
D)
Deseret Almanac
Yesterday’s answer:
(B)
The possibility of moving the Church to the Panaca area of Nevada in wake of
Johnston’s army in 1857
Between
March and June [1857], expeditions headed by George W. Bean (Provo) and William
H. Dame (Parowan) roamed through an expanse of the Great Basin astraddle the
current Utah-Nevada boundary, about two hundred miles north-south and one
hundred miles east-west, and even planted crops near present-day Panaca. But
the 171 men of the White Mountain Expedition found nothing to match Brigham
Young’s impression of “room in that region for 500,000 persons to live
scattered about where there is good grass and water.”
Richard
D. Poll, “The Move South,” BYU Studies, Fall
1989, 66.
Additional
interesting information:
Brigham
Young said [Referring to the army that the United States was sending], “I am in
favor of leaving them before I am obliged to. . . Where are you going? To the
deserts and the mountains. There is a desert region in this Territory larger
than any of the Eastern States, that no white man knows anything about. . . . I
am going there where we should have gone six or seven years ago.
Clifford
Stott, Search of Sanctuary: Brigham Young
and the White Mountain Expedition (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,
1984), 24-30, 49-65.
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