Under
the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, 2003, Excerpts
On July 21, 1847, an
advance party crested a ridge and caught the Saints’ first glimpse of “the
valley where the broad waters of the Great Salt Lake glistened like sunbeams.”
The Great Salt Lake Valley struck the scouting party as a fine site on which to
erect a capital for the Kingdom of God on earth. Brigham, weak and aching from
tick fever, arrived in the valley with the main company on Saints on July 24,
1847, the date now venerated throughout Mormondom as Pioneer Day.
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