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Bottomless Lakes State Park, Roswell NM

Prickly Pear, Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad NM, January 15, 2008
Prickly Pear, Brantley Lake State Park, Carlsbad, New Mexico, January 15, 2008

Bottomless Lakes State Park, Roswell NM

Nights I've camped here

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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