CHAPTER LXVII.

Invited To the Midwinter Fair, San Francisco, and Accept--Journey to California--Kind Treatment Received--An Honored Guest--Write a Pamphlet on the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill Race--First Accurate Account Published--Again at Home--Preparing my Autobiography for Publication--A Great Task--Progress of the Work--My History of the First Mission to the Pacific Islands--Utah's Semi-Centennial Jubilee--Not a Utah Pioneer of 1847--Pioneer Just the Same--Mormon Battalion Recognized in the Utah Celebration--Invited to join In the Parade--Comparative Narrowness of Committee's Courtesy--Letters from California Regarding the Pioneer Celebration there in 1898--Invited with three Others of the Mormon Battalion, to be Special Guests as the Survivors of the Party that Discovered Gold In California in 1848--Appreciation of the Courtesy Extended by Californians.