"Sunday [ ] did not travel [ ] the day cold"
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The pioneers tried very hard to keep Sunday as a day of rest for the holiness of it and for the rest for themselves and their animals. Sometimes traveling couldn't be helped. They had to near water. It was also a day to wash themselves and their clothes. As Thomas Bullock called it, Sunday was ......."a day of purifying, with nearly all engaged in washing". Eric Glines shot a buffalo that wandered close to camp in full view of Sunday worship. Heber C. Kimball was speaking at the time and "made a comment about hunting on the Sabbath, but was mild in his remarks".
William Clayton made a signpost that said they were 356 miles from Winter Quarters. They put final touches on the 'roadometer' which was a gear devise designed by Orson Pratt and built by Appleton Harmon. It measured the turns of the wagon wheel and gave a more accurate count of mileage. It was encased in a box connected to the axed of one of the wagons and was 18 inches long, 15 inches high, and 3 inches thick. They must have thought they were very blessed not to have someone running along side counting the revolutions of a red rag tied to a wheel.
(Information from "111 Days to Zion" and image from Mountains of Stone....O. Ned Eddins)
