Jane Augusta Gardner biographical sketch.
- Source Locations
- Church History Library, MS 2050
- Related Companies
- Edward Hunter/Joseph Horne Company (1847)
- Related Persons
- Archibald Gardner
- Jane Gardner
- Joseph Horne
- Edward Hunter
- Thomas Orr
In the spring we gathered what was left of our stock and got ready to start our long journey across the plains. We started sometime in June[.] came to the Elkhorn[.] there they organized in companys of one hundreds[,] fiftys and tens[.] We were in Bishop Hunter's hundred. Joseph Hornes fifty and uncle Archie's [Archibald Gardner's] ten. Later in [Thomas] Orr's ten[.] of course it is in history our travels across the plains and I need write very little about it. Of course we saw millions of Buffalos[.] the hills and vales were black with them and we saw also lots of Indians but they did not try to hurt us[.] they were quite friendly. Father found a fawn at Elk Horn[.] we fed it milk and bro[ugh]t it here to the valley with us. It grew to be quite a deer. We lost it on our way to the Weber and never found it again, we were sOrry to loose it. It was such a pet. Father killed a young Buffalo and devided with his friends. He was the first in the company to kill a Buffalo. There were others killed later on.
We got to the Val[l]ey about the first of October 1847, camped on what is now called Pioneer Square.