We left the old country [Scotland] sometime in May. We sailed from Liverpool on the sailing vessel Cynosure and were seven weeks on the sea. I was sick most of the way. We landed in New York and in a few days we left going from New York to Florence on the frontiers of the prairie. Went by boat to Albany, from there part of the time in boxcars as the regular cars were being used for the transport of troops. Before we got to Florence, we got on a steamboat and went up the Missouri river; a number of the passengers had to get off the boat and walked to Florence. My brother James and myself sleeping all night in a wagon box with bedding. Anyone can judge the amount of sleep we got. We went to the boat the next day and found the rest of the folks. My father bought two yoke of oxen and a new shutter wagon and we crossed the plains in Captain Horton Haite's company being eight weeks on the trip. . . we arrived in Salt lake at Conference time, the 6th day of October, 1863. . . . [p.1]
BIB: Henderson, William. Biographical sketch (Ms 12755), p. 1 (Typescript) (CHL)
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