During The Famine Years Between 1853 And 1858, Great Destitution Prevailed, Especially In The Southern Settlements, On Account Of Drouth And Grasshoppers, And Throughout One Hunger Winter In Particular, Thousands Of The People Subsisted Chiefly On The Bulbs Of The Tulips, Called "Sego" By The Indians, Who Taught Them Its Use.

Liliaceous women and girls are rare among the Mormons.

They have seen too much hard, repressive toil to admit of the development of lily beauty either in form or color. In general they are thickset, with large feet and hands, and with sun-browned faces, often curiously freckled like the petals of Fritillaria atropurpurea. They are fruit rather than flower - good brown bread. But down in the San Pitch Valley at Gunnison, I discovered a genuine lily, happily named Lily Young. She is a granddaughter of Brigham Young, slender and graceful, with lily-white cheeks tinted with clear rose, She was brought up in the old Salt Lake Zion House, but by some strange chance has been transplanted to this wilderness, where she blooms alone, the "Lily of San Pitch." Pitch is an old Indian, who, I suppose, pitched into the settlers and thus acquired fame enough to give name to the valley. Here I feel uneasy about the name of this lily, for the compositors have a perverse trick of making me say all kinds of absurd things wholly unwarranted by plain copy, and I fear that the "Lily of San Pitch" will appear in print as the widow of Sam Patch.

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