Chapter 28: Exercising Self-Control  Teachings of Presidents of
the Church: Brigham Young, (1997), 202–209  President Brigham
Young learned through experience that leading people of strong
and often independent wills to Zion brought moments of triumph
and moments of exasperation. In 1848, the wagon train of 2,000
Saints that he led encountered a herd of buffalo. Although
President Young appointed camp hunters to kill just enough
buffalo to provide meat for the travelers, other men left their
teams to ride after the animals all day, shooting them in
abundance and leaving dead buffalo on the prairie to waste. He
reproved the people for the course they had taken [see JTB,
29–30 June, 2 July 1848]. He later said, “Learn to govern
yourselves” (DNW, 15 Aug. 1860, 1). “Bless yourselves and
friends, by conquering and controlling yourselves, [for] unless
you control [your] passions [and] make all your faculties
subservient to the principles God has revealed, you will never
arrive at that state of happiness, glory, joy