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What could you spend up to $5 for on the Mormon Trail,
if you had money to burn?
a.
Ferry across
major rivers
b.
Feed for your
animals at Forts along the trail
c.
Have your named inscribed
on Independence Rock
d.
Bets on horse
races with the natives
Yesterday’s
answer:
B Watering
gold miners horses
From the life of Moses Thatcher: February 2, 1842: Born in Sangamon County, Illinois. His
family migrated to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Two years later, touched with
the gold fever, they moved to Sacramento, California, where his father operated
an “eating house.”
Moses earned his keep by watering miners’ horses for
as much as five dollars a drink. He also mined, extracting moss and gold from
the crevices of rocks on the banks of the American River with a butcher knife
and a milk pan.
Missionaries frequently visited the Thatcher home, and
fourteen-year-old Moses was baptized in the Rio Puta in 1856.
Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker, A Book of Mormons, (Salt Lake City:
Signature Books, 1982), 367.
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