Captain D. Jones's Miraculous Protection and Reception at Little Salt Lake
Published October 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Zion's Trumpet Research
While exploring and surveying the region south of Great Salt Lake City in January 1851, Captain D. Jones and his companions faced severe hardships, including hunger, freezing temperatures, and dangerous wildlife. During their return journey to the Little Salt Lake, they narrowly survived a skirmish with aggressive locals, and were ultimately welcomed back by the Saints with great relief and celebration upon their arrival at midnight.
In Their Own Words
“Next day, P. P. Pratt and I went ahead of the others, and we reached our wagons in the Little Salt Lake by midnight, tired, and after having a rather hard skirmish with the snarling residents of these woods. Everyone healthy, and happy to see us; we were received with cannon thunder, rifles, hurrahs and hosannas, &c. Hardly anyone slept until the morning, rather we exchanged stories and news, and feasted. — Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet), No. 15 (July 26, 1851) (English translation by Ronald D. Dennis)”
Sources & References
Ronald D. Dennis, trans. and ed., Zion's Trumpet: 1851 Welsh Mormon Periodical (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University), No. 15 (July 26, 1851) issue. https://rsc.byu.edu/zions-trumpet-1851-welsh-mormon-periodical/no-15-july-26-1851 (account extracted verbatim from the published English translation; research confidence: high)
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