Brigham Young writes about the "farcical" cost of relocating the children who survived massacre.
Brigham Young, Letter to Horace Eldredge, May 5, 1859, CR1234 1, Church History Library
The large incident expenditure of public money are very farcical, to all who knew those children could at any time have been forwarded, at a trifling expense, with any company going to the States.