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Sunday, May 9, 2010 - Crossroads RV Park, Lyndon KS

Yellow along the trail, Spiderwort, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010
Yellow along the trail, Spiderwort, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010

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Site 28 - Crossroads RV Park & Campground, Lyndon KS

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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