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Happy Pioneer Day to my fellow Utahns, to my fellow Latter-day Saints, and to anyone else who may desire to celebrate it! Heres one of my twelve Facebook wall posts today to acknowledge this days passage. On 1847 Jul 22, an advance group of the first Mormon pioneers arrived in Utahs Salt Lake valley, started to irrigate it, and planted a few crops. Two days later, on 1847 Jul 24, their leader Brigham Young, who was then very ill with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, oversaw this great valley for his first time and prophetically proclaimed in response: It is enough. This is the right place. Drive on. He and his fellow LDS pioneers then established Utahs first permanent non-indigenous settlement, which would become Salt Lake City, from which Latter-day Saints gradually colonized other portions of Americas vast parched Great Basin. Utahs annual quintessential state holiday of Pioneer Day now celebrates these pioneers arrival to settle it, while a memorial park now commemorates their first encampment here. Heres a brief audiovisual clip that overviews these notable historical events.Happy Pioneer Day to my fellow Utahns, to my fellow Latter-day Saints, and to anyone else who may desire to celebrate it! On 1847 Jul 22, an advance group of the first Mormon pioneers arrived in Utahs Salt Lake valley, started to irrigate it, and planted a few crops. Two days later, on 1847 Jul 24, their leader Brigham Young, who was then very ill with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, oversaw this great valley for his first time and prophetically proclaimed in response: It is enough. This is the right place. Drive on. He and his fellow LDS pioneers then established Utahs first permanent non-indigenous settlement, which would become Salt Lake City, from which Latter-day Saints gradually colonized other portions of Americas vast parched Great Basin. Utahs annual quintessential state holiday of Pioneer Day now celebrates these pioneers arrival to settle it, while a memorial park now commemorates their first encampment here. Heres a brief audiovisual clip that overviews these notable historical events.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:28:24 +0000

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