Two days before President George A. Smith delivered a discourse in Salt Lake City on May 24, 1874, General A. W. Doniphan came to visit Salt Lake City. President Smith reminded the saints of the role General Doniphan played thirty-six years before in helping the saints, and in stopping the...

Oliver B. Huntington tells of an incident he heard Joseph relate just after he returned from Washington, D.C., when President Martin VanBuren told him, “Your cause is just but I can do nothing for you.” “He said that he was one day riding with other gentlemen and some lady passengers...

The following incident was related to Brother James Bird by Brother O. B. Huntington, of Springville, Utah, who was wise enough to keep a daily journal during his whole life: “It was in 1842 or 1843, at Nauvoo, that Joseph Smith the Prophet had such a time with his horse,...