r to find out
everything from the boys.

"My boy, where are you from?" they would ask.

"From the east," was the answer.

"Where are you going?"

"To the west."

"What for?"

"To see where we can get land cheapest and best."

"Who leads the camp?"

"Sometimes one, sometimes another."

"What name?"

"Captain Wallace, Major Bruce," etc.

The Prophet Joseph believed in being kind to all animals, and he instructed
his brethren in Zion's camp to kill none except for food. Man must first
become peaceful, before animals will lose their fierceness. Not long after
this instruction had been given, a brother became very tired by traveling
and lay down on the ground to sleep. When he awoke, what should he see but
a rattlesnake coiled up not more than a foot away from his head. Just then
some of the brethren came up and wanted to kill the snake; but the brother
said, "No, I'll protect him, for he and I have had a good nap together." He
remembered what Joseph had said.

On June 7th the company having crossed the Mississippi river, camped on
Salt river in Missouri. More of the brethren had joined the company on the
way, and now it numbered two hundred and five men. From this point Parley
P. Pratt and Orson Hyde were sent to Governor Dunklin at Jefferson city,
asking him to use his power as the highest officer in the state to have the
Saints brought back to their homes in Jackson county. The governor said he
thought it right that the Saints should get back their lands, yet he was
afraid if they tried to go back or if he called out soldiers to help them
get their homes, there would be a terrible war and many people killed. So
the governor would do nothing to help them.

While Zion's camp was making its way to the Saints in Clay county, a
meeting was held in Liberty where some mobbers from Jackson county tried to
arouse the people against the Saints. Nothing being done at this meeting, a
party of fifteen men started for Independence to raise an army large enough
to destroy Joseph and the camp.

One of the leaders of this band was James Campbell. As he pushed his
pistols into the holsters before starting, he said with an oath: "The
eagles and turkey buzzards shall eat my flesh if I do not fix Joe Smith and
his army so that their skins will not hold shucks before two days are
passed!" As he and his companions were crossing the Missouri river their
boat sank. Seven of them were drowned and among them was Campbell. What was