. . . My mother and sister and I joined the Latter-day Saints and for the love of his family my father sold out and we started for the United States and Utah [p. 1] in Jan 53 on the ship Golconda, from Liverpool to New Orleans up the river by steamboat to St. Louis. Bought our outfit there and by steamboat again to Keokuk where we bought 100 head of oxen and cows besides horses. I passed my 13th birthday there. In May we started to Council Bluffs. I driving and ox team to that place, we then crossed the river and bidding adieu to all civilization began on journey across the plains. I will not describe the sights we saw, Indians by the hundreds and buffalo by the thousands and mosquitoes by the billions. . . . [p. 2] [NO MENTION OF ENTRANCE INTO SALT LAKE CITY]

BIB: King, Thomas O. Autobiographical sketch. (Ms 8795 reel 13 #6), pp.1-2; Acc. #574. (CHL)
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