--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Iverson, Minnie collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 17 number: 4 published: 1914-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Minnie Iverson, "Rosa. A Poem," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 4 (February 1914): 299.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1704unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1704unse start_page: 299 end_page: 299 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1704unse publication_year: 1914 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Rosa. A Poem BELATED EMIGRANTS OF 1856 299 cattle that were taken from Devil's Gate, perished before they reached Fort Bridger. Probably no greater act of heroism was ever recorded in the annals of history than that performed by the twenty-seven young men who, on the morning of October 7, 1856, went from the city of the Great Salt Lake to the relief of the 1,550 belated emigrants, who were caught in the early snows of a severe winter, hundreds of miles from human habitation, without food and without shelter. By their indefatigable labors these brave mountain boys were instruments in the hands of the Lord in saving 1 ,300 of that number. Had it not been for their heroic efforts, not enough emigrants would have been left to tell the dreadful tale. [In the preparation of this series of articles for the Era, the writer acknowledges with thanks valuable aid and information received from the authors of the following works, and from surviving members of the handcart companies, and the relief party: Original records at the Church Historian's office, "The Contributor," "Orson Pratt'- Journal," "William G. Young's Journal," "The Liverpool Route," "Forty Years among the Indians;" "Whitney's History of Utah;" "The Pioneer Book of Utah;" Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson; Thomas Dobson, Andrew Smith, Samuel S. Tones, and other living members of the Martin and Willie companies; Mrs. Elizabeth Raleigh, Mrs. Margaret Whitehead Young, and other surviving members of the Hodgett and Hunt companies; Harvey H. Cluff, Stephen H. Taylor and Benjamin Hampton, surviving members of the relief party. The use of original paintings and sketches from the following artists: George M. Ottinger, Lee Greene Richards, L. A. Ramsey, Mahonri M. Young, Dan Weggeland, J. B. Fairbanks, and Samuel Jepperson; and courtesies in the loan of rare paintings "and portraits from President Toseph F. Smith, Richard W. Young, and many others.— S. F. K.] Rosa There's a brighter gleam in the morning beam, On meadow, hill, and plain, And a blither note from the blue-bird's throat That sings in sun or rain. For Rosa, dear Rosa, is coming home again, For Rosa, our Rosa, is coming home again. How my heart doth beat as the carriage fleet Comes swiftly up the land, Now it draweth near. "She is here, yes, here!" With lovely smiles again. For Rosa, dear Rosa, at home, at home again, For Rosa, dear Rosa, at home, at home again. Minnie Iverson. laie, oahu