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company were ill with mountain fever, they encamped for a few days. Thirteen battalion brethren who were out searching for stolen cattle now surprised them, and Brigham led in three hearty cheers.^^ Again en route, passing through the Green Kiver country, they reached Fort Bridger. Soon after leaving this point the real difficulties of the journey commenced. Led, as the saints relate, only by the inspiration of the Almighty,^"' Brigham and his band crossed the rugged spurs of the Uintah range, now following the rocky bed of a mountain torrent, and now cleaving their way through dense and gnarled timber until they arrived at Echo Canon, near the eastern slope of the Wasatch Mountains, where for a brief space the main bod}^ rested, the president and many others being attacked with mountain fever. ^^

Impatient of the delay, Brigham, after a formal

^^ 'I exclaimed, "Hosanna! hosanna! give glory to God and the lamb, amen !" in which they all joined.' Hist. B. Young, MS., 1S47, 96. 'Left Phineas Young and four others, who had volunteered to return to guide the immigrants.'

^'^ Smith's Rise, Progress, and Travels, 16. 'For,' says the author, 'no one knew anything of the country.' Snow, in Utah Pioneers, 33d ami. , 44, remarks: 'The president said we were to travel "the way the spirit of the Lord should direct us.'" Snow states that James Bridger, who had a trading post which still bears the name of Fort Bridger, when he met the president on the Big Sandy River about the last of June, and learned that his destination was the valley of Great Salt Lake, offered §1,000 for the first ear of corn raised there. 'Wait a little,' said the president, 'and we will show you.' Again, on p. 4-5 lie says that, being encamped on what is now known as Tar Springs, the pioneers were met by a mountaineer named Goodyear, who had wintered on the site of the present city of Ogden, after planting grain and vegetables in the valley, but with meagre results. The mountaineer's report was very discouraging, but to him also Brigham replied, 'Give us time and we will show you.' There is no evidence that as yet the president knew anything about the Salt Lake Valley except what he heard from Bridger and Gooilyear, or had gleaned from the reports of Fremont's expedition. 'On the 15th of June met James H. Grieve, Wm Tucker, James Woodrie, James Eouvoir, and six other French- men, from whom we learned that Mr Bridger was located about 300 miles west, that the mountaineers could ride to Salt Lake from Fort Bridger in two days, and that the Utah country was beautiful.' Hist. B. Young, MS., 1847, 92. 'Half-mile west of Fort Bridger some traded for buckskins, their cloth- ing being Morn out.' Id., 97. Note also the following: 'Met Capt. Bridger, who said he was ashamed of Fremont's map of this country. Bridger con- sidered it imprudent to bring a large population into the great basin until it was ascertained that grain could be raised. '

'^ 'We had to stop at Yellow Creek and again at the head of Echo Canon, stopping and travelling as the sick were able to endure the journey, until we reached the Weber at the mouth of Echo Canon, and struck our camp a few miles below the present railroad station.' Utah Pioneers, 33d ami., 45.