He Dreamed Dreams
Improvement Era, vol. 12, no. 8, June 1909, p. 638
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vividly related this massacre at Laramie. " Write it, " I urged him, "that others may know what some of us escaped." He then was ill and sat in darkness, so that the circumstance was not written that I know of. Continuing his narrative, Brother Parkinson says, "By the time we reached the Sweetwater country, our cattle began to give out, we could not travel as before. Capt. Fields, alive to the emergency, and fearing a be- lated entrance into the Val- ley, bought up a lot of cattle there, which was a great help to the emigrants, expecting to make good his outlay when they reached the Valley. This wise and humane act,
George Dunford. however, proved a sad pecu- niary loss to him, though such a great blessing to his company, for he failed to make good his outlay. Later, stripped of his earthly possessions, he left the chosen people for California, where he soon died. While those who remained under his care with their descendants have helped to build up and make beautiful the Zion of our God."
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HE DREAMED DREAMS.
"I dreamed that I slept in an editor's bed, When the editor was not nigh, And I thought as I lay in that downy coujh, How easy editors lie!" Ladies' 1
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