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Monday, March 30, 2009 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Buzzards Roost, Buzzard's Roost, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009
Buzzards Roost, Buzzard's Roost, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009

Today I moved a few miles north to the South Monticello Point campground at Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Elephant Butte NM.

Night camp

Site 31, South Monticello Point - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte 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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