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1859 June 14 Letter to Bernard Price

Title

1859 June 14 Letter to Bernard Price

Description

Brigham advises the best routes to take and when to meet for immigration.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

Bernard Price

Date

1859 June 14

Location

Great Salt Lake City
West Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Subject

Emigration
Overland Travel

Item sets

Letterbook v. 5

Great Salt Lake City June 14th 1859
1859 June 14 Letter to Bernard Price

Mr. Bernard Price,
West Pittsfield, Mass.,

Dear Sir:--
Your letter of May 8, addressed to Prest. H. C. Kimball, was this day handed to me by Pres. Kimball, and in reply I have to inform you that I deem the overland route by way of the Platte River much the best. Our immigration makes Florence, a town on the Missouri river, in Nebraska Territory, their starting point from the western frontiers, and travels on the north side of the Platte, through the South Pass, &c. By the time you receive this, it will probably be too late for you to start this season, as the immigration generally aims to leave the Missouri river as early as grass will sustain animals, and seldom later than the 1st of July,

Respectfully

Brigham Young Sen