By: Ardis E. Parshall - December 31, 2018 From the Improvement Era, October 1943 – Men of Iron By James P. Sharp The pioneers often referred to the year 1857 as the one with nine months hard winter and three months late fall. An entry in Church Chronology reads: “Friday, November 6. Five hundred animals perished from cold and starvation around U. S. army camp on Black’s Fork.” Late in October that year Brigham Young paced back an...
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