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Sunday, April 20, 2008 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM

Creosote, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, April 19, 2008
Creosote, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, April 19, 2008

Site 9 has no hookups and as much as I like boondocking the electric is especially nice to have if I'm going to stay put for more than a couple of days.

Night camp

Site 11 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs 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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