And we've all got our women and children to recollect.

We've got to be peaceable at any price, and put up with whatever dirt is heaped on us." "But what will we do with the desert coming ?" cried a woman who nursed a babe at her breast.
"There's several settlements before we come to the desert," father answered.

"Fillmore's sixty miles south.

Then comes Corn Creek.

And Beaver's another fifty miles.