Elder Day's preservation from an Indian's bullet
Published October 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Millennial Star Research
While the missionaries at Fort Lemhi were surrounded by hundreds of hostile Indians in February 1858, an Indian on horseback aimed a gun directly at Elder Day from a short distance. Elder Day stood still and looked down the barrel, and for an unaccountable reason, the Indian did not fire, but instead mounted his horse and rode away.
In Their Own Words
“I should have mentioned that during the threatened panic, before the men organized, an Indian rode swiftly toward Elder Day, hanging to his horse with one arm and one foot, concealing his body behind his horse, (a custom of some Indians in times of danger) quickly alighted, knelt at a short distance and took deliberate aim at Elder Day. The latter looked calmly down the barrel of the gun without making any movement. For some unaccountable reason the Indian jumped up, mounted his horse and dashed off without firing his gun.— Millennial Star 53:21”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 25 May 1891 (Vol. 53, No. 21). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1891-05-25_53_21 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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