A STUDY IN SCARLET - PART - 2 - CHAPTER - 2

by Arthur Conan Doyle in English Human Science

CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH. THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes ...Read Morethe Rocky Mountains they had struggled on with a constancy almost unparalleled in history. The savage man, and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and disease—every impediment which Nature could place in the way, had all been overcome with Anglo-Saxon tenacity. Yet the long journey and the accumulated terrors had shaken the hearts of the stoutest among them. There was Read Less