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Utah & the Saints. John D. Lee was born at Kaskaskia, Ill. in 1812. His background was Roman Catholic, but in 1838 he became a Mormon and was adopted as a "foster-son" by Brigham Young himself. Lee recognized and obeyed only two superiors-God Almighty and Brigham Young. If these two seemed to differ, then Lee went along with Young as the man who knew more than God about Utah and politics. So when the Mormons decided to press southward to establish new cities and expand the Kingdom of the Saints, Young made Lee one of the principal leaders...
...Lee "carried from 2 to 3 colts Revolvers" and knew how to use them. He was a wagoner, a cobbler, a woodsman, a cattle breeder, a farmer, a doctor of sorts who could perform a "surguicicle operation," an impassioned preacher, a shrewd businessman, a layer-on of hands, a seer of fascinating visions. He was one of the toughest men that ever walked, but the Indians (who ate out of his hand) named him Yawgawts, which means Cry-Baby (Lee himself preferred to render it "Man of Tender Passions"), and his foster-father once exhorted him, saying: "I want...
Houses & Habitations. For many years, all went well with John D. Lee. His Diaries begin with the famed westward march of the "Camp of Israel" to the Great Salt Lake-a moving mass of covered wagons, horses, mules, cows and oxen rolling over the "dusty and verry hot" trails. He records the daily search for precious pasture and fresh "waiter," the inevitable fevers, pains, accidents, deaths and childbirths. Throughout, imbuing the earthiest, coarsest things with the highest spiritual ardor, run the passionate preachings of the "Apostles...
...Harmony, in southern Utah, John D. Lee performed such prodigies of farming and building that within a few years he was patriarch of a mighty family numbering some 50 souls. Patriarch Isaac Morley exclaimed: "Why, Bro. Lee . . . You have Houses & Habitations, Flocks & Heards, wives & children in every direction. I Marvel when I see what the Lord has accomplishd through...
Wives & Bishops. Most of Lee's wives lived with him in Harmony, where his children required a school all to themselves. But soon he had well-stocked homes, each headed by a trusty wife or two, in several other settlements. He did his rounds of them regularly and earnestly. But he took care never to ask his wives' advice, for Brigham Young had forbidden it, saying roundly: "All their council & wisdom . . . don't weigh as much with me as the weight of a Fly Tird. Excuse me for my vulgarity ..." Lee was kinder and more considerate than...