{"id":2371,"date":"2021-05-14T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2021-05-14T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:06:19","slug":"desolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"Desolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>     A San Francisco paper says that an immigrant, just arrived across the plains, gives the following description of a memorable journey of which many thousands of animals and so many persons of last years emigration perished.<br \/>\n     &#8220;If there is a section of country in Gods wide extended creation that can surpass that large scope of country lying between Salt Lake Valley, and Carson&#8217;s River, for sterility of soil, scarcity of timber, and everything that has a tendency to cheer up the spirits of the warried traveler, I&#8217;m sure I don t want to see it. From the sink of Humboldt river across the desert to Carson&#8217;s River, my heart sickened at seeing the great destruction of property, viz: wagons, carriages and buggies, dead horses, mules and cattle, whose carcasses lie thick all over the ground, in a state of preservation, the skins and a good deal of the flesh being dried to the bones, the water marshes and air being impregnated with alkali, that has a tendency to keep off the devouring insects and birds of prey. But the worst had not been told. To see every two or three hundred yards a father, mother, brother or sister has been buried but the corpse is disinterred by the prowling wolf or savage Indian-the bones to bleach on the great American desert. Although I am a hardened sinner, I could not refrain from shedding tears, and feeling myself more submissive to that mighty and powerful God, who rules the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A San Francisco paper says that an immigrant, just arrived across the plains, gives the following description of a memorable journey of which many thousands of animals and so many persons of last years emigration perished. &#8220;If there is a section of country in Gods wide extended creation that can surpass that large scope of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,57],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}