The story has been told many times of Mary Fielding Smith’s journey across the plains to the Great Salt Lake Valley. In the many retellings, she crossed the Plains as a widowed mother, blessed a sick ox, and reached the Salt Lake Valley ahead of the perhaps villainous captain of the wagon train. Over the years writers have occasionally questioned whether Joseph F. Smith’s childhood memories of the plains crossing were accurate.[1] And rig...
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