0739454064 (N) by Sally Denton

Author:Sally Denton
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307425836
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-17T22:00:00+00:00

On entering the long-sought valley of Zion, Mormon “Saints” like Jean Rio were greeted with the majestic sight of the Great Salt Lake. Always impressed by the physical grandeur of the American West, she was in awe of the setting of her new home.

They came upon a row of seven wagons, each with a broken wheel or axle. Continuing on, they reached yet another party of ten wagons in similar disrepair. “We picked our way as well we could, and at about sunset we emerged from the canyon and caught a faint view of our destined home.” The party camped in a hollow at the entrance to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Exhausted, Jean Rio joined Eliza in a wagon. The young woman was in extreme distress from the jolting of the day’s travel. Jean Rio encouraged her with the knowledge that the following day would be the last of their journey. “Thank God . . . it is over now,” she wrote in her diary that final evening. “They tell us that five miles tomorrow will bring us to the said Salt Lake City, and after crossing a hill, at whose base we are now resting, we shall have a road as smooth as a bowling green.”

She rose the morning of September 29 “with a thankful heart that our travels were nearly finished.” After breakfast she attended to her “two patients,” Eliza and the baby, who were both getting along better than could have been expected. Impatient to see her new home, Jean Rio clambered to the top of the hill the wagons would soon climb. There before her she saw the city “which was laid out in squares, or blocks as they call them here, each containing ten acres and divided into eight lots, each lot having one house.” She stood speechless and stared. “I can hardly analyze my feelings, but I think my prevailing ones were joy and gratitude for the protecting care God had over me and mine during our long and perilous journey.”

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