Friday, June 21, 1844 --
Governor Ford arrived today in Carthage. The first thing he did was activate the town militias under his command from all the surrounding communities in the County.
Next he wrote Joseph Smith and requested that one or more "well informed persons who will be capable of laying before me your version of the matter" come to Carthage immediately.
The two selected to go were John Taylor and John Bernhisel. They arrived at the Hamilton Hotel late in the evening and spent the night with pistols under their pillows.
Friday, June 21, 2013.
Today, we went to Iowa City for the first time. Went to Costco, visited a colleague of mine at the Univ. of Iowa Dental School who is the head of the Grad Perio Department, and went to the Mormon Handcart Park which is on the Univ. of Iowa campus. This was the staging area for building the handcarts and getting everyone outfitted as they got off the train in Iowa City, from 1856 through 1860. It is a nice small park with "reader boards" describing the campsites, cemetery, and how they left for Utah.
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