William Clayton

I got an interesting call from a bookstore located in Salt Lake the other day.  They informed me that a book I had ordered was now in and that if I still wanted it to call them within the next day or two.  I was a bit confused, not remembering that I had ordered a book.  When I called they said I had placed the order in 2004!!  It is a book no longer in print and they had just acquired it - I must have heard a quote from it sometime in my stake travels and tried to find a copy of it.  I bought the book and it arrived the other day.  It is the Journal of William Clayton, the author of "Come Come Ye Saints".  In the book's foreword, it says:  "With the exodus from Nauvoo, he was the Clerk of the Camp of Israel, and when the Mormon pioneers left Winter Quarters in April 1847, he was appointed by Brigham Young one of the historians of that noted company.  His journal of that memorable expedition over the plains is one of the most valuable diaries we have of that early period of western history."  I'm excited to read it.