JS had sent word of his coming and requested that the legion’s brass band “and as many of the citizens as could to go & meet them.” Accordingly, they were met by “an immenes [immense] concourse of people,” with JS’s wife Emma Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith on their horses, accompanied by a military escort, a band, and a train of carriages that “extended about a half mile.” (Clayton, Journal, 30 June 1843; JS, Journal, 30 June 1843; see also Eliza R. Snow, Journal, 30 June 1843.)
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