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    • Rock Creek, Wyoming

    • Rock Creek, Wyoming

    • Mormon handcart companies; James G. Willie Emigrating Company; Wyoming; Rock Creek (Fremont County, Wyo.); Rivers--Wyoming;

    • At this location, the Willie Handcart Company received much needed supplies.
    • Grand Encampment

    • Grand Encampment

    • United States. Army. Mormon Battalion;

    • Captain James Allen summoned four and one-half companies to this location along Mosquito Creek and recruited them for the Mexican War. The Mormon Battalion fought for the army for one year. Located at the "Grand Encampment" of the Mormon pioneers....
    • Grand Encampment

    • Grand Encampment

    • United States. Army. Mormon Battalion;

    • At the Grand Encampment, 490 men, 12 boys and 20 women joined the Mormon Battalion. The Grand Encampment was the gathering Point for Mormon Wagon Train, 1846. During the spring and summer of 1846, many pioneer companies of The Church of Jesus...
    • Council Bluffs Sign: Mormon Battalion

    • Council Bluffs Sign: Mormon Battalion

    • United States. Army. Mormon Battalion;

    • "Mormon Battalion Mustering Grounds. One of the most remarkable infantry marches in American history began here in July 1846 with the mustering of the Mormon Battalion. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) responded...
    • Cutler's Park

    • Cutler's Park

    • Cutler's Park (Neb.);

    • Cutler's Park, Nebraska was established before Winter Quarters, but was abandoned because the Saints were afraid of attacks by local Indian tribes.
    • Mill at Florence, Nebraska

    • Mill at Florence, Nebraska

    • Flour mills; Food processing plants; Mills and mill-work; Florence (Neb.);

    • The Mormon Mill, as it is known, is the only remaining Mormon structure in Florence, Nebraska. Since the Mormons left, the building has been expanded and moved to its present location.
    • Rock Creek Marker

    • Rock Creek Marker

    • Mormon handcart companies; Mormon pioneers; James G. Willie Emigrating Company; Wyoming; Rock Creek (Fremont County, Wyo.); Rivers--Wyoming; Historical markers;

    • "Willie's Handcart Company. Captain James G. Willie's Handcart Company of Mormon emigrants on the way to Utah, greatly exhausted by the deep snows of an early winter and suffering from lack of food and clothing, had assembled here for...
    • Rebecca Burdick Winters Monument

    • Rebecca Burdick Winters Monument

    • Winters, Rebecca, 1801-1852;

    • "In memory of Rebecca Burdick wife of Hiram Winters. She died a faithful Latter-day Saint. August 15, 1852. Aged 50 years. While making that memorable journey across the plains with her people to find a new home in the far distant Salt Lake Valley....
    • Ancient Ruins Bluff

    • Ancient Ruins Bluff

    • Nebraska; Ancient Bluff Ruins (Neb.); Cliffs--Nebraska;

    • Many Mormons recorded this landmark in their journals along the trek to Utah. The bluffs were so named because they look like ancient ruins.
    • Ash Hollow

    • Ash Hollow

    • Ash Hollow Formation; Formations (Geology)--Great Plains; Geology, Stratigraphic--Cenozoic;

    • Ash Hollow is where the Oregon Trail nears the Platte River after coming off of the plateau. This was a favorite camping site of the pioneers because of its natural springs.
    • Fort Laramie

    • Fort Laramie

    • Fort Laramie (Wyo. : Fort); Fortification--Wyoming; Fort Laramie National Historic Site (Wyo.); Fort Laramie (Wyo.);

    • Interior view of Fort Laramie's barracks. Mormon pioneers visited Fort Laramie as they left the trail north of the Platte River and joined the Oregon Trail.
    • Fort Laramie

    • Fort Laramie

    • Fort Laramie (Wyo. : Fort); Fortification--Wyoming; Fort Laramie National Historic Site (Wyo.); Fort Laramie (Wyo.);

    • Mormon pioneers visited Fort Laramie as they left the trail north of the Platte River and joined the Oregon Trail.
    • Fort Laramie

    • Fort Laramie

    • Fort Laramie (Wyo. : Fort); Fortification--Wyoming; Fort Laramie National Historic Site (Wyo.); Fort Laramie (Wyo.);

    • This is a photograph of a buffalo soldier reenactor.

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