Eliza Roxcy Smith Snow Young (21 Jan 1804 – 05 Dec 1887 | Becket MA – Salt Lake City UT) poet, Mormon historian, married to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Lorenzo Snow.

Songs for the Pioneers: Altho’ in woods and tents we dwell shout, shout, O Camp

of Israel. No christian mob on earth can bind our thoughts, or steal our peace of mind.

Lo! a mighty host of people tented on the western shore of the noble Mississippi, they

for weeks were crossing o’er, at the last day’s daw of winter, bound with frost & wrapt in

snow. All at once is life in motion – trunks & beds & baggage fly; oxen yok’d & horses

harnessed – tents roll’d up, are passing by. Let us go – let us go to the ends of the earth

– let us go far away from the land of our birth, for the banner of “freedom” no longer will

wave o’er the patriot’s tomb – o’er the dust of the brave. Let us go to the wilds for home,

where twlf & roe & buffalo roam. Let us go to where our rights are secure, where waters

are clear & atmosphere pure, where shouts of salvation shall be hear round the world!

Women’s Voices : An Untold History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1900. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982. https://archive.org/details/womensvoicesunto0000unse_k9w2/page/152/mode/1up?q=snow