"21st [ ] continued our journey up the mountains [ ] crossed over one ridge into another valley [ ] went down some distance then crossed over another ridge into another valley [ ] journeyed down some distance and then camped"
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The photo at right is looking down from Big Mountain. Imagine for a moment trying to get all those wagons and oxen, plus all the other animals they had, plus all those people down that mountain and into Emigration Canyon and the Valley. It staggers my thinking.
Those 'ridges' he's talking about are Big Mountain and Little Mountain.
At some point today Charles joins up with the advance party. This is interesting because all of my life I have been told that he was a member of the 'advance party' getting into the Salt Lake Valley two days before Brigham's group got there. But I can see it a little clearer now. Charles was not a member of that advance party....at first. The members of that party chosen by Orson Pratt were as follows:
Stephen Markham, Porter Rockwell, Jackson Redden, Nathaniel Fairbanks, Joseph Egbert, John Freeman, Marcus Thorpe, Robert Crow, Benjamin James Chesney, Lewis Myers, John Brown, Shadrach Roundy, Hans Christian Hansen, Levi Jackman, Lyman Curtis, David Powell, Oscar Crosby, Joseph Mathews, William Carter, Gilbroid Summe, Green Flake, John Gleason, Charles Burke, Norman Taylor, Alexander Chesley, Seth Taft, Horace Thornton, Stephen Kelsey, David Grant, James Stewart, Robert Thomas, Charles Barnum, George Wardle, John Eldredge, Elijah Newman, Francis Boggs and Levi Kendall.
Charles was in the next company of wagons behind the advance party of Orson; the third set of wagons behind Charles were with Brigham and in those wagons were people too sick, or were taking care of the sick, to travel that fast. Brigham was still in the carriage recovering. Charles was never in the 'original' advance party. If anyone knows otherwise, feel free to let me know, but this is what I have found out through reading. I know that on this day (July 21st) through his own writing, he was still in the party behind Orson Pratt's. Tomorrow (July 22) he will come into the valley with Orson's party as I assume the whole main party he was with did. While they are waiting for Brigham, they will start to plant crops during those two days. Brigham's wagons will come in two days later with a still ailing president.
They then decided to make July 24 the official day of entry in honor of Brigham Young coming in on that day.
Little Mountain
