Multiplication of Resources

Miraculous Catch of Fish to Feed the Camp

Published September 3, 2026 at 8:32 AM

1830s · 1834
En route (various streams including the Muskingum River)
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As a skilled fisherman, Woodruff recorded several instances where he and others were able to catch large quantities of fish from small or unlikely streams to provide food for the hungry camp. He viewed these successful catches not merely as luck or skill, but as a form of divine provision (multiplication of resources) to sustain the men during their arduous journey when other food supplies were low.

Sources & References

Wilford Woodruff, Journal, June 1834 (Zion’s Camp), public transcript at https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/documents/7fa48660-76da-4b7d-be34-ec03b88b3d57/transcript ; scholarly survey of the camp’s provision miracles at https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/we-believe-the-hand-of-the-lord-is-in-it-memories-of-divine-intervention-in-the-zions-camp-expedition — research note (deferred): no contemporary record of a miraculous catch of fish to feed the camp survives, and none of the later reminiscences collected in the BYU Studies survey of the expedition’s provision miracles includes a fish-catch account; Woodruff’s own journal mentions the brethren “hunting, fishing &c” while waiting to cross the Mississippi on June 5, 1834, but records no miracle; this record is retained with its Meridian Magazine attribution, but is documented as unverified — it has no verbatim first-person account in any public archival source, and a verified excerpt will be added only if such a source surfaces.

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