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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Sunset on the trail, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 9, 2009
Sunset on the trail, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 9, 2009

It's cool in the park today - yesterday morning's light snowfall is gone except for a light dusting on the mountains across the valley.

Night camp

Site 27 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

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.

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