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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - Boiling Springs State Park, Woodward OK

Japanese Beetle Lunching on Multiflora Rose, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, July 15, 2010
Japanese Beetle Lunching on Multiflora Rose, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, July 15, 2010

Night camp

Site 19 - Boiling Springs State Park, Woodward OK

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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