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Feb 24, 1880

Journal Entry

February 24, 1880 ~ Tuesday

24 we drove to the big Gulch. we took our waggon down the steepest
Mountain I ever descended on wheels we locked both hind wheels and
tied 3 cedar trees to the hind axeltree and then it was all we could do in safety 15 Miles

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Daybook (October 24 1879 - January 31 1881)
24. we drove to the big Gulch J W Y shot at a Deer but Did not kill him our horses feet were tender going over the rocks unshod we took our waggon Down the steepest Mountain I ever saw a waggon go Down we rough lashed both hind wheels then tied 3 cedar trees to the hind axeltree and then it was all we could do to get down 15 M[iles]

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Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.

Feb 24, 1880