Duane S. Crowther discusses late reminiscences of Luman Shurtliff, Orson Pratt, and Lyman Wight that Joseph believed the Saints would move to the Rocky Mountains.
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- Duane S. Crowther LDS
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Duane S. Crowther, "A Study of Eschatological Prophecies Found in the Scriptures and in the Works of General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," (M.A. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 1960), 18-19
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- Brigham Young University
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- Luman Andros Shurtliff, Duane S. Crowther, Lyman Wight, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, John D. Lee
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- Reading Public
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Luman Shurtliff, upon his arrival in the Great Basin in 1851, also made it clear that the Prophet had definitely contemplated a western exodus:
We got into the Salt Lake Valley, September 23, 1851, thankful to the God of Heaven that I and my family were in the valley of the Rocky Mountains—here where the Prophet Joseph Smith had said thirteen years before [in 1838] that the Saints would go if the government did not put a stop to the mobbing and the persecution of them.
Orson Pratt also testified that the Prophet had anticipated the exodus long before it transpired. In a public meeting held on April 26, 1846, in the early days of the exodus, he stated:
It is eight years today since we all came out of Missouri. Before that time Joseph the Prophet had this move in contemplation and always said that we would send a company of young men to explore the country and return before the families can go over the mountains; and it is decidedly my mind to do so.
His testimony was corroborated by Lyman Wight, who stated in a letter to Wilford woodruff that “such a mission was even talked of while in [Liberty] Jail.”
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