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fill them with flour, bacon, and potatoes. I had the use of my
friend Miller's store to warehouse our traps, as I had more than
we could take away. The people were anxious for me to remain and
take up a farm, make my home with them, and preach and build up a
church. I told them I was bound for the Rocky Mountains.

As for Mr. Dorsey, he offered me all he had, and wanted to know
what to do to be saved. He gave me a history of his life. He told
me that he led a company of men from Carroll County, Missouri,
when we were driven from the State. I reflected a little, and
gave him a list of city property at Nauvoo that I would turn over
to him at one-fourth its value for what property he would turn
out to me. He said he had twelve yoke of oxen and twenty-five
cows, besides other stock; four bee stands, three wagons, six to
eight hundred dollars' worth of bacon, flour, meal, soap, powder,
lead, blankets, thirty rifles, guns, knives, tobacco, calicos,
spades, hoes, plows, and harrows; also twelve feather beds, and
all of his improvements. He said he only wanted his carriage and
a span of black horses to take himself, wife, and partner to
Nauvoo. And all the above property he would turn over to me, and
I might give him deeds to property in Nauvoo.

Brigham commenced making a settlement at the place where he was
camped. He called the place Garden Grove. We returned to camp,
laden with all that our teams could haul, besides the three
wagons I had from Dorsey. There was a deal that we could not move
away. I took a forty-gallon cask of honey and a quantity of
whisky and brandy from Dorsey. The bee stands, improvements, and
farming utensils I turned over for the use of what settlers
remained behind at Garden Grove. I also made arrangements for the
labor needed by the company that was left, so that they might be
planting crops and raising supplies while building houses to live
in.

All the borrowed teams were returned to Nauvoo to bring others
forward, while those who had teams of their own pushed on and
made another settlement called Pisgah, and then went forward to
Council Bluffs - afterwards called Kanesville, in honor of Col.
Thomas L. Kane. From this point I took a cargo of traps,
consisting of feather beds, fine counterpanes, quilts, and such
goods, and went down to Missouri, with a number of wagons, to
obtain supplies, together with beef cattle and cows.

During my absence a call was made on the Mormons for five hundr