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In a biographical sketch of her grandfather,
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Tidings," Our Pioneer Heritage vol. 14 (1971), 227. |
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In March 1864, he was again sent on
a mission to the Hawaiian Islands, accompanying Apostles E. T. Benson and
L. Snow and two other Elders. He returned to Salt Lake in the winter of
1864–5 by stage, having a bitter experience in the deep snows of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. Soon after returning from this mission he was employed
in the Historian's Office and in the House of the Lord. |
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The "bitter experience"
can only refer to the Dutch Flat incident with Levira, but only "those
with eyes" to see would understand. As the sketch is so brief one wonders
why Peterson referred to the incident at all—unless she wanted to preserve
its memory if only as a passing allusion. |
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