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Apr 17, 2008 - Camped at Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

I'm back at Rockhound for just one night after a day of running errands in Deming. Tomorrow I'll be heading over to Leasburg Dam State Park north of Las Cruses NM to meet up with friends for a few days.

Night camp:

Site 26, Rockhound State Park, Deming, New Mexico

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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