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We left Winter Quarters on the 12^th of June, just one year to the day after leaving Nauvoo, and then it was that I gained my first experience as a bull-whacker. I was hardly twelve years old, but I remember taking my turn standing guard morning and evening, though I was considered too young to stand guard during the night. We were in “Uncle John’s”—Young—company, Jedediah M. Grant was captain of the hundred; Bates Noble captain over our fifty, and Amos Neff, now of Mill Creek, was captain of our ten.

Upon our arrival in Salt Lake Valley, which occurred on the 3^rd of October, 1847, we pitched our camp just northeast of the springs in what is now Charles Taylor’s lot in the southwest corner of the Fourteenth ward;