Gathering Treats on the Trail

In his journal, cousin to the prophet, Jesse N. Smith, states that he gathered what on the trail—something that he hadn’t tasted since his boyhood?

     a.      Dew drops

     b.      Gum drops

     c.       Prairie gum

     d.      Goose berries

Yesterday’s answer:

(C)   He rented a room to Peter Whitmer Jr.

In June 1832, Peter Whitmer Jr. rented a room from Lilburn W. Boggs, the future governor, and operated a tailor shop. Mary Elizabeth Rollins, teenage niece of A. Sidney Gilbert, worked for Whitmer and stitched the facing of Lt. Gov. Boggs’s inaugural suit.

Plewe, Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 33.