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Friday, April 27, 2012 - Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM

Cliffside Honeycomb, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, April 23, 2012
Cliffside Honeycomb, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, April 23, 2012

Night camp

Riverside - Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo 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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