Burning of the Wagons
The above picture was painted by my maternal great grandfather B.Y. Andelin, it is a representation of the burning of the wagons and event that occurred in the Utah Territory (now Wyoming) in 1857. Interestingly enough my paternal great grandfather was at the actual event and left his recollections of what took place. William Isaac White was born Isaac LeBlanc was born sometime between 1829 and 1840 in Quebec Canada, he left Canada and traveled to Chicago as a young where he worked for a time as a teamster; transporting goods between Chicago and Saint Louis. In 1857 while he was in Saint Louis he heard that the Army was organizing men to go west, eventually ending in California. William left his freight and joined up to be a teamster for the Army, driving a provisions wagon, with the expectation that he would settle in California at the end of the trip. William later told family members that the actual mission of the Army was to remove the then governor of the Utah Territ