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English
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Joseph Holbrook
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An Enduring Legacy
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1978
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169-216
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May 16, 1846 to March 13, 1870. He criticizes the United States government's call for the Mormon Battalion and describes the destitution of the soldiers' families. He describes a trade meeting with the Puncas Indians. He provides a day-by-day chronicle of the trek from the Missouri Bluffs to Winter Quarters. He arrives in the valley in September 1848. He gives a positive description of the mass immigration through Utah for the California gold rush, as the emigrants brought valuable goods for trading with the Saints. Holbrook negatively refers to the many brethren who leave the valley for the gold rush. In Salt Lake City, Holbrook is sealed to his deceased wife with his living wife, Hannah Flint acting as proxy. He marries a third wife whose husband left the Church while in Winter Quarters. He serves as the probate judge of Davis County from 1852-1856. In 1860, he mentions the fulfillment of Joseph Smith's Civil War prophecy made in 1832.