Memoirs of John R. Young Utah Pioneer 1847 _Written by Himself_ Salt Lake City Utah The Deseret News 1920 "Words are the soul's ambassadors who go Abroad, upon her errands to and fro, They are the chief expounders of the mind, And correspondence kept 'twixt all mankind." They place in memory's clasp, truths we have read, Beautiful words, of both living and dead, Helping us cherish, and nurse as they grow, Elysian plants, from thoughts that we sow. Bringing to memory, and waking to life The form, and face of a child, or wife, The choicest treasures to mortals given, The golden thread that leads to heaven. O, may the thoughts in this book penned, Prove sweet, and pure, to kindred and friend, To a child, or grandchild, as the case may be. Loyal scions, from the ancestral tree; Whose pulse will quicken, and brain will throb, As they view the path the grandsire trod." _Appreciation_ _With pleasure I express thanks to Professor N. L. Nelson, Historian Andrew Jenson, Elder Walter J. Lewis, Sister W. Lyle Allred, and to my son, Newell K. Young, and to you, my many friends, who have given words of encouragement to_ _THE AUTHOR_ CONTENTS. CHAPTER 1. Birth.--Childhood Recollections. CHAPTER 2. Camp on Sugar Creek.--Brigham's Charge to the Exiles.--Death of a Noble Woman.--Free from Mobs CHAPTER 3. Petition Governors.--William C. Staines.--Captain James Allen CHAPTER 4. Thomas L. Kane's Description of the City of Nauvoo, and the Exiled Mormons CHAPTER 5. Daniel H. Wells.--Baptism for the Dead.--Lorenzo D. Young's Mission.--Wilford Woodruff.--Saved by Prayer CHAPTER 6. Brigham's Wise Counsels.--Joseph Toronto.--Joseph Smith, Seer and Organizer.--Prophecy of August 6, 1842 CHAPTER 7. A Religious Commonwealth.--General Clark's Degree.--Brigham's Indian Policy.--Its Peaceable Fruits.--The Glory of the Immigrant's First View of the Valley CHAPTER 8. Mormon Stalwarts.--A War on the Plains.--Death of Celestia Kimball.--Two Indian Girls Tortured.--Sally's Death.--Ira Eldredge's Dog and the Wolf.--Delicious Rawhide Soup.--Eat Thistles.--The Devastating Crickets.--Delivered Wrought by the Sea Gulls CHAPTER 9. My First Mission.--Uncle Brigham's Counsel.--Parley P. Pratt, Teacher and Orator.--My First View of the Ocean.--San Francisco.--Tracting the City.--Scrap With a Hotel Keeper.--Labor as a Cook in the Home of Mr. McLean.--The Man who Murdered Parley P. Pratt CHAPTER 10. Sail for the Islands.--At Honolulu T Labor in Tin Shop.--My First Kanaka Meal.--A Home with Kiama.--Attend Native Funeral.--Meet Mr. Emerson.--Three Days Without Food.--Saved by a Donkey.--Lose my Eyesight.--Receive a Glorious Vision CHAPTER 11. On Oahu Again.--John Hyde's Apostasy.--I Meet Him in the Presbyterian Church.--At Waiahia