Read all about our trek along the Mormon Battalion Trail!
I would think Kevin would be cross-eyed and crazy from all the calculations and routes he's examined the past few months but…. today he gave me the breakdown of what he thinks we'll be doing this time around.
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Who comes to your house and says, we have to leave in a few hours but have to walk three miles before we go? Who says, “Great, let's go!?” Mark and Becky. So, at 7 am we roll out of the house and walk through St. George
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What a great audience attended Kevin's lecture at the St. George DUP meeting today. They got into the spirit of things participating in the sing-a-long portion and Becky Woodbury's piano playing brought it all together.
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These folks made training fun Friday night as we arrived in St George and apologetically said we needed to get in our miles.
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The future of The Mormon Battalion Trail and its possibility of obtaining historic trail status rests in the hands of the National Mormon Trails Association being able to push a new bill through congress.
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People are proud of their Battalion Ancestors. We enjoyed meeting many of you today at the Battalion Booth at RootsTech.
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I tried to build one myself but…then God sent Heather Nuffer to my aid! We needed something simple but she jumped right in and voila!
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Here we are in the room where they bring you the documents you request. Everyone has their own space and their own documents. See the cart full of boxes behind Craig in the back corner? You are not allowed to bring in any ink pens, notebooks, or loose papers unless they have been stamped by the archivists. I could look at Laura’s documents but only touch the ones I had checked out.
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Kevin’s search through the archives was a challenge but it was fun to see the types of things he did find. The amazing documents you see (and handle) there gives you a real respect for the past. The paper – often brittle and worn, the handwriting mostly beautiful but sometimes illegible. The elegantly designed printing on the old government forms. I was thinking about the hours and hours and hours people spent copying, calculating by hand, and meticulously recording details that we were now looking at! I bet they never imagined in a million years that some in 2025 would be scrutinizing what they wrote.
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Lobbying for the Mormon Trails extension of "Period of Significance." Laura and Kevin met with congressmen and senators while we were in DC.
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We're at the National Archives this week and I got goosebumps when Laura Anderson held up this old bundle of documents and said they were records about the Detachments at Pueblo!
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Today we were fortunate to find a travel trailer that will serve as “home” for our trek. Nothing fancy, but perfect for two people who will be tired each night and don’t feel like pitching a tent. 😉
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Kevin & Denny Henson are deep into planning another trail research hike—this one from Pueblo, Colorado to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. This hike will commemorate the 1847 Mormon Battalion detachments and Mississippi Saints journey from their temporary wintering settlement to join Brigham Young’s pioneer company on the Mormon Trail.
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