Apr 08, 2008 - Camped at Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus NM
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Night camp
Site 56, Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus, New Mexico
Hobnobbing with Brigham Young
The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.