Sunday, May 2, 2010 - Clayton Lake State Park, Clayton NM
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Clayton Lake, Clayton Lake State Park, Clayton NM, May 2, 2010
Night camp
Site ?? - Clayton Lake State Park, Clayton NM
- Verizon cell phone service - none
- Verizon EVDO service - none
- Go to Clayton Lake State Park website
- Locate Clayton Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather 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.