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St. George • Many experts agree that four mass burial sites are the final resting places of most members of a California-bound emigrant wagon train from Arkansas who were slaughtered in 1857 by ...
The inconveniences usually attendant upon settling in a new country, the long and dreary journey in the emigrant wagons, the uncertain explorations, the rude life in a log hut, the contests with ...
ENCAMPMENT - In 1857, one of the most violent episodes in Western American trail history played out in a mountain meadow in southern Utah. Last weekend, the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...
Across the West are remnants of historic trails, wagon roads, emigrant routes and what’s left of dreams in dry places. In the 19th century, Americans traversed our country on horseback and in ...
Emigrant Partners ("EP"), the leading minority investor in the wealth and asset management industry, announced it has made a strategic minority investment in Principle Wealth Partners ("Principle ...
Emigrant Bank has named Mark Rogozinski as managing director and head of family office services, a newly created position aimed at bolstering the bank’s specialized offerings for family offices ...
One of the most chilling incidents of that era was the Mountain Meadows Massacre in September 1857, during the Utah War, which saw over 120 members of the BakerFancher emigrant wagon train ...
On Sept. 11, 1857, militia members, and some Paiute allies they recruited attacked the California-bound emigrant wagon train from Arkansas and killed all the adults, along with children deemed old ...
TUOLUMNE COUNTY – Authorities say they have called off the search for a California man who was last believed to be hiking in the Emigrant Wilderness. Michael Moore, 71, was last seen on Aug. 16 ...
There are also 2 miles of wagon train ruts, entrenched from the roughly 100 covered wagons that passed through each day in 1849. The two worn lines stretch into the horizon, a visible testament to ...