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This will be the 59th annual Ox Roast for Camp Pioneer. Dine-in, drive-thru and carry-out are available, with drinks only offered to those who dine in. Learn More About It.The Ox Roast meal consists of two sandwiches, baked beans, cole slaw, desert and a drink. Consequently, it is not being updated with new or revised information with the exception of "Related Website" links.
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The Local Legacies project provides a "snapshot" of American Culture as it was expressed in spring of 2000. Sesquicentennial event is documented through books, music, videos, Latter-day Saint congregations throughout the world. CelebrationsĪnd service projects were held throughout the state of Utah and Of the 1847 Mormon Pioneer wagon train left Omaha, Nebraska inĪpril and arrived July 22nd in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1997 marked the 150thĪnniversary of the pioneer arrival. Third largest parade in the United States. Held since 1849, the celebration now includes the Those words of Brigham Young on July 24th began the annualĬelebration of the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers in Salt Lake Tens of thousands to what later became the State of Utah. Drive on." That year and subsequent years brought Surveyed the valley for only moments before announcing, "This is From his supine position in the back of a wagon, he Mountain range, however, Brigham became sick with mountain feverĪnd entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, three days behind theĪdvance party. Relatively easy one, considering the trails they had already
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Pleasant, if not too warm, summer weather, their long journey was a Of 143 men, 3 women, and 2 children on April 5, 1847. Innocence and virtue, who delight in injustice and oppression."īrigham Young, as the presiding Elder of the Churchįollowing their founder, Joseph Smith's death, set out for the Westįrom Winter Quarters, now Omaha Nebraska, with an advance company Governors and judges whose hands are drenched in the blood of The deserts, islands or mountain caves than consent to be ruled by Precious among the nations, we feel that we had rather retreat to Of our own as one of the richest boons of earth, and while weĪppreciate the Constitution of the United States as the most Notice of the farewell: "We would esteem a territorial government Polk in 1846, Brigham Young gave effectual Gathered enemies, leaving them, ultimately, no choice but departureįrom their homes in the East. (Articles of Faith 1:11.) But as they gathered converts, they The same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may." Usurpers: "We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty GodĪccording to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men York, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois, they were no theocratic Swelling the population of a number of frontier communities in New Their dead, they told themselves they were being tested, andĪlthough the body of Latter-day Saints grew rapidly, If they wereīlessed with an easy passage, they praised God for his favor if Their exhausted and starving camps as miraculously as manna everįell upon the camps of the Israelites fleeing Pharaoh. Rivers opportunelyįroze over to permit passage of their wagons, quail fell among Way of trying their faith." And such faith was rewarded. These pioneers took persecution and suffering in stride, "as God's Impelled as they were by something greater than gold, Manhattan to Miami or Seattle to San Diego. The Mormon Pioneer exodus was a searchįor religious freedom, a journey equal to the distance from Wilderness to Salt Lake City, leaving another 6,000 in shallow Mormons, had walked or waggoned across 1,300 miles of (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), also called Point in Utah in 1869, perhaps 70,000 Latter-day Saints Transcontinental railroad joined East and West at a remote Allred, courtesy of the Deseret Newsĭubbed, the "Days of '47," the 150th Pioneerĭay Celebration was held in 1997 to commemorate the trek the Re-enactment of Mormon pioneers arriving in Salt Lake Valley, Pioneer Day, 1997 Photo by Jeffery D. Utah: Pioneer Days (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots - Library of Congress) The Library of Congress