I Saw the Elephant

The Adventures of Betsy Loveless Trilogy, #1

Reeks: The Adventures of Betsy Loveless Trilogy

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  • "Seeing
  • the
  • elephant"
  • is
  • a
  • nineteenth-century
  • American
  • phrase
  • meaning
  • to
  • have
  • new,
  • and
  • often
  • horrific,
  • experiences.
  • Civil
  • War
  • soldiers
  • would
  • often
  • state
  • they'd
  • "seen
  • the
  • elephant"
  • on
  • witnessing
  • combat
  • for
  • the
  • first
  • time.Born
  • in
  • 1838,
  • thirteen-year-old
  • Betsy
  • Loveless
  • had
  • already
  • "seen
  • the
  • elephant"
  • many
  • times
  • during
  • her
  • young
  • life.
  • She
  • survived
  • the
  • horrors
  • of
  • Mormon
  • oppression
  • when
  • those
  • peculiar
  • people
  • lived
  • near
  • her
  • hometown
  • of
  • Carthage,
  • Illinois,
  • and
  • saw
  • it
  • again
  • while
  • traversing
  • the
  • Oregon
  • Trail
  • in
  • 1848.
  • Miss
  • Loveless
  • "sees
  • the
  • elephant"
  • once
  • more
  • after
  • she
  • touches
  • a
  • wavy
  • phantasm
  • that
  • transports
  • her
  • from
  • 1852
  • to
  • 2015.
  • Adjusting
  • to
  • the
  • ways
  • of
  • the
  • future
  • is
  • a
  • rough
  • lot.
  • It
  • only
  • gets
  • worse
  • when
  • her
  • new
  • best
  • friend
  • becomes
  • mesmerized
  • with
  • Mormonism
  • by
  • some
  • proselytizing
  • classmates—especially
  • since
  • she
  • knows
  • the
  • truth
  • about
  • Joseph
  • Smith
  • and
  • the
  • Mormon church.
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