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Lake Valley met the emigrant trains, bringing much needed flour and supplies. They camped along the Green River on the 18th of September, resting the cattle and oxen, and on the 5th of October they rolled into Salt Lake City. Morton was weary, footsore, and poor. But he was young and strong, and as he looked across the desert valley he saw promise and opportunity. He had kept that promise to himself he had made at 1?. He had seen a good deal of the world. Now it was time to build and to make his mark upon it. Postscript: Korten Rasmussen worked in the canyons above Salt Lake City for three years. 3y that time Jens Larsen had emigrated with the rest of the family and had moved to Ephraim. He joined them in 1857, and two years later in Ephraim he met Karen Marie Christiansen, who would become his wife on April lot. On their wedding day they moved to Mt. Pleasant and began married life in one of the huts lining the newly constructed fort in that new village. THIRD PLACE SHORT STORY RED CLOUD THE MUEHDLY INDIAN LuGene A. Nielson 146 East 300 North Ephraim, Utah 84627 Every summer, from the early 1900's to 1944, a well-known Ephraim man, Anton Anderson, and his son, Ferald, were in charge of a large herd of sheep that was known as "The Town Herd," Several Ephraim men would pool their sheep together and pay a set price per head to have them herded on the mountain ranges east of Ephraim from July to October* There would ¦usually be approximately 1100 sheep in this herd each year. There weren't any good roads, cars and trailers as there are today, so it was necessary to live in tents 84 |
