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Friday, December 30, 2011 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Sunset, Sandhill Crane, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 5 2011
Sunset, Sandhill Crane, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 5 2011

Night camp

Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, 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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