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Mormon Conflict

Mile 1304: East Canyon/Dixie Hollow/Dixie Creek/Bauchmanns/ Snyder’s Mill Station

"Ten and one-half miles from Weber via Bachelors Canyon [blocked by private land] or about 13 and one-half miles from Weber via Henefer. "East Canyon Station, currently inundated by the…

Winter Bivouac

"In constructing the nightly bivouac each set of two or three men would dig a hole seven or eight feet square down to the ground. A bed of soft pine twigs was…

Gunpowder Seasoning

"During the twelve ensuing days the men continued to live on the meat of starved or exhausted horses and mules. As the salt supply ran out they discovered that gunpowder sprinkled on…

Marcy Expedition Crossing the Rockies

"Marcy offered the [Ute] chief the value of three horses if he would guide the party to Cochetopa Pass, the only feasible route in miles over the continental divide. But the Indian…

Winter Resupply for the Utah Expedition

The "Mormon War" broke in 1857. . . . 'l'he aspen leaves were already flashing a brilliant yellow and the chill of autumn was abroad when the little army reached the Green River…

Aftermath of the Utah War

"Jesse Gove wrote as his summary of the war: 'Wounded, none; killed, none; fooled, everybody.' But is disappointment at being deprived of a chance to shoot Mormons had made him…

Establishing Camp Floyd

"Upon their arrival in Cedar Valley on July 8 [1858] the officers and men of the expedition established a military post which they appropriately called Camp Floyd, in honor of…

The Army Enters Salt Lake City

"A prerequisite to the establishment of any real peace in the Territory was the entrance of the army and its creation of a military camp without incident. On June 13…

Resupplying the Utah Expedition

"In January 1858 the Government to arrange with Russell, Majors & Waddell to transport approximately sixteen million pounds of freight, most of it destined for Utah. To fulfill this assignment…

Winter Quarters

"With Fort Bridger as the northeastern anchor, the various units of the [Utah expedition] stretched up Black's Fork for a number of miles, the entire settlement  assuming the name of…

Fort Bridger

"Jim Bridger always maintained that his strategically located fort had been stolen from him. The Mormons, he insisted, had never bought him out in 1853, as they had said, but…

Mormon Defensive Maneuvers

"On October 3 [1857], Wells and his advisors reached a number of important decisions under the threat of Alexander's rapid advance. First they resolved to destroy Fort Bridger and Fort…

The Nauvoo Legion

"In Missouri, before Joseph Smith  had decided that resistance to the Gentiles would only result in massacre of this people, the Saints had formed an irregular army and had fought…

Recall of Mormon Missionaries

"Of greater significance was the closing of two missions in the West, Carson Valley in present-day Nevada and San Bernardino on the Coast. Begun by private individuals in 1849, .…

Mormon’s Defense Strategy

"[The Mormon's] strategy passed through two distinct phases. The Church's first course, followed from July to early October 1857, seems to have been one of determined resistance to Buchanan's expedition.…

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Scott AlumbaughIn early March 2020, I decided to bikepack the length of the Pony Express Trail in Summer 2021, following the Pony Express Bikepacking Route, a nearly all off-road route created by Jan Bennett. You can learn more here >

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