Elizabeth Kane first met Brigham Young on a railroad platform in Utah Territory as Young examined the carriages and wagons of a large party heading south to St. George. “He wore,” she wrote, “a great surtout [overcoat], reaching almost to his feet, of dark-green cloth (Mahomet color?) lined with fur, a fur collar, cap, and pair of sealskin boots with the undyed fur outward.” She felt to laugh, “but as he turned to address me, he rem...
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