to a body of water some two hundred miles to the south, situated in what was later known as Iron county, near Parowan, and which has since almost disappeared. The stream connecting the two great lakes was named the Western Jordan, now called the Jordan, and the whole region whose waters flow into the lake was distinguished as the great basin.[1] On the 26th a second company, consisting of 107 persons,[2] started for Winter Quarters. Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball set forth on horseback a little in advance of the others, but turning back, they waved their hats with a cheery "Good-by to all who tarry," and then rode on.
"We have accomplished more this year," writes Wilford Woodruft', " than can be found on record concerning an equal number of men in the same time since the days of Adam. We have travelled with heavily laden wagons more than a thousand miles, over rough roads, mountains, and canons, searching out a land, a resting-place for the saints. We have laid out a city two miles square, and built a fort of hewn timber drawn seven miles from the mountains, and of sun-dried bricks or adobes, surrounding ten acres of ground, forty rods of which were covered with block-houses, besides planting about ten acres of corn and vegetables. All this we have done in a single month. "[3]
At Winter Quarters active preparations had been making for following the pioneers at the earliest opportunity. Throughout the spring all was activity. Every one who had teams and provisions to last a year and a half was preparing to move, and assisting those who were to remain to plough and sow. Parley P. Pratt, having returned[4] from England short-
- ↑ It was also called The Great North American Desert.' Taylor's Bern., MS., 2-2.
- ↑ With 36 wagons, 71 horses, anil 49 mules,
- ↑ Woodruff's Journal, MS., 78.
- ↑ I found my family all alive and dwelling in a log cabin; they had, however, suffered much from cold, hunger, and sickness. . .The winter had been
