Comments on: Without Purse or Scrip in Texas: 1 November – 18 November 1900

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:18:54 +0000

Pecans may be nice, but when that’s all you get for supper 5 nights a week, I suppose even they get can get old.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:10:21 +0000

When my mother was stationed in Texas during World War II, she mailed a burlap bag filled with pecans to her mother in Salt Lake. They were all still talking about it 20 years later, so I take it Texas pecans are truly wonderful!

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:33:35 +0000

This makes me really miss pecan season in Texas!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:13:18 +0000

Yes — at the end of the last installment (October 31), Jones changes companions and heads off with an Elder Barber.

And I’m puzzled by “D.R.” too — I don’t think it’s Durant, since he refers to that one as “Durant” later in this installment, but I can’t think of what pamphlet then in use would fit “D.R.” Still thinking. (Durant played a role in my own family’s history, so I’m kinda fond of that one.)

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:59:24 +0000

The Durant book: http://archive.org/details/mrdurantofsaltla00richrich

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:57:45 +0000

On Nov 02, was the companion’s name Barber?

I don’t recognize the Nov 03, “sold him a D.R.” Could that be the “Durant” (Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City, “that Mormon”)? I haven’t tabulated sales, but it seems that the most commonly sold books where the Durant, A Voice of Warning, and the Book of Mormon.