Original sentence: Meeting the Fancher party on his way to Salt Lake City, wagon train scout, Indian agent, and Mormon missionary Jacob Hamblin directed the party to find water and fresh grazing for its livestock at the grassy, mountain-ringed Mountain Meadows
Edited sentence: Meeting the Fancher party on his way to Salt Lake City, wagon train scout, Indian agent, and Mormon missionary Jacob Hamblin had innocently directed the party to find water and fresh grazing for its livestock at the grassy, mountain-ringed Mountain Meadows