Description of experiences had in crossing the plains and mountains in the spring of 1863, settling in the eastern and unorganized portion of Idaho territory, and experiences had in that country in 1863-4, 1904.

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Description of experiences had in crossing the plains and mountains in the spring of 1863, settling in the eastern and unorganized portion of Idaho territory, and experiences had in that country in 1863-4, 1904.

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Walker's party left West Point, Iowa, on 8 April 1863, destined for California. They traveled by steamboat and rail to Atchison, Kansas, and from there "in one of Ben Hollidays stage coaches" to Fremont's Orchard. They encountered about sixty Indians. They arrived safely in Denver. Walker went with a wagon train for some "diggings discovered about five hundred miles north of Salt Lake City." They passed a group of Mormons heading back east who told Walker: "We are Mormons: but we are not devils; we are not Brigham Young Mormons, they are Devils. We are Joseph Smith Mormons." Walker recounts in detail their story of life fifty miles north of Salt Lake City, and recalls from his childhood "in the years 1840 to 1845 when I lived amongst them when all of my neighbors armed, baracaded, nd turned their farm houses into citadels to prevent their being murdered and robbed by the Mormons." Walker's group crossed Idaho and he describes the founding of Virginia City, Montana, in which he took part. He described life in the West in great detail.

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Harold B. Lee Library

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