"Brigham’s Call to Rescue"

Artist: Michael Bedard

 At General Conference on October 5, 1856, President Brigham Young announced that “many of our brethren and sisters are on the Plains with handcarts, stranded without food and provisions, . . . seven hundred miles from this place, and they must be brought here, we must send assistance to them . . . . We must bring them in from the Plains. . . . I shall call upon the Bishops this day, I shall not wait until to-morrow, nor until next day, for sixty good mule teams and twelve or fifteen wagons.”

-Brigham Young