(Text from... and pictures from Melanie Tyler)
Letter Concerning the Utah Jubilee
Beaver City, Utah, May 18, 1897
Spencer Clawson Esq.,
Salt Lake City
Chairman, Jubilee Committee,
Dear Brother,
I arrived in Salt Lake Valley on the 16th of October 1846 [should be 1847] in A.J. Lytle’s Company of returning Soldiers of the Mormon Battalion, remained in the “Old Fort” two days, leaving on the 18th to join my family at Council Bluffs, Iowa, where I arrived just two months later, having completed a pioneering journey in round numbers of about five thousand four hundred miles in the short space of one year, five months and two days. Should you think me entitled to recognition under the rules of your noble organization, please enter my name on your list.
Yours Truly,
Daniel Tyler
"Daniel wrote a letter (see earlier) in which he explained that he was among the earliest of those who arrived in Salt Lake Valley and asking to be included as such in the 50 year celebration. He and other early arrivers were given a souvenir to keep, made of enduring metal. I am uncertain of its size but think it would fit into the palm of the hand. It depicted the temple, a covered wagon, a train, the honey bee, and a picture of a man in the center, possibly Brigham Young."
"Daniel Tyler treasured his and passed it down with the instructions that the oldest son of each generation, who he also requested to be named Daniel (and it has been done), should have it, along with his original copy of the Mormon Battalion book, which he wrote."
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