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Richardson Point ^^ they made their second stationary camp, the third at Chariton River, the fourth at Locust Creek, where a considerable time was spent. Then there were — so named by the saints — Garden Grove,^* a large timbered tract which had been burned over. Mount Pisgah/^ and finally Winter Quarters, in Nebraska, on the west side of the Missouri, a little above the modern Omaha, on the site of the present town of Florence. ^^ At Garden Grove and Mount Pisgah were established farming settlements for the benefit of those who were to follow. In July the main body reached the Missouri at the spot now known as Council Bluffs, and soon afterward many crossed the river in a ferry-boat of their own construction, and pitched their tents at Winter Quarters. Other large encampments

Between the Mississippi and Missouri.

^' In Lee County, Iowa, three weeks from their starting-point.

' Many located there, ploughing and sowing, and preparing homes for their poor brethren for a longer period.' Home's Mir/rations, MS., 19. 'On the morning of the 27th of April the bugle sounded at Garden Grove, and all the men assembled to organize for labor. Immediately hundreds of men were at work, cutting trees, splitting rails, making fences, cutting logs for houses, building bridges, making ploughs, and herding cattle. Quite a num- ber were sent into the Missouri settlements to exchange horses for oxen, val- uable feather-beds and the like for provisions and articles most needed in the camp, and the remainder engaged in ploughing and planting. Messengers were also despatched to call in the bands of pioneers scattered over the coun- try seeking work, with instructions to hasten them up to help form the new settlements before the season had passed; so that, in a scarcely conceivable space of time, at Garden Grove and Mount Pisgali, industrious settlements sprung up almost as if by magic' TnUidge's Life of Brvjham Yotmg, 41.
 * About 150 miles from Nauvoo, on the east fork of the Grand River.

^' This site was discovered by Pai'ley, who was sent forward to reconnoitre by Bi-igham. It was situated on a branch of Grand River, and for years was the resting-place for the saints on their way to Utah. Autobiog. P. Pratt, 381.

'^Here 700 log cabins and 150 dugouts (cabins half under ground) were built. A large quantity of hay was cut, and a flouring mill erected. Id., 383.