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As a literary experience, this was good preparation for later editorships of church newspapers in Illinois, New York, and Liverpool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his personal letters and speeches, and from the diaries and reminiscences of associates, vivid images of Taylor s life appear: his children crossing the Missouri River on the backs of oxen bulls; one of his ten plural wives packing a piano instead of a cookstove for the trip and then later regretting it; and Native Americans teaching him how to burn a cricket-infested field, gather the roasted insects, and grind the carcasses into flour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaylor s eventual tenure as church president was spent on the dodge from federal marshals, and prior to that he often lived out of a suitcase, rotating from one of his sixteen families to the next. Among his greatest achievements was the settlement of as much territory as was colonized by his more famous predecessor, Brigham Young. 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