Pioneer Trails Workshop, Day 5

Day 5 and 6 we didn't take many pictures because our camera was running out of both batteries and memory, and it had been quite a while since we been around much civilization to recharge it.

This day we saw Charlotte Dansie's grave. Another place we know a pioneer was buried. She died in childbirth and her husband buried her with a necklace of blue beads. Much later, some family went back to the area to try to find that spot and pay their respects. They asked the land owner there if he knew anything about the grave, and he pulled out of his pocket a blue bead. Ants had formed an ant hill and those beads had surfaced around the base of it. The land owner had taken good care of the grave site ever since.

Fort Bridger

Piedmont

There is a tradition at Green River to try to throw rocks all the way across.

I was just excited about Green River because Jean liked it. Here I am with her beat up journal, inspecting the banks to see if it was just the way she had described it in 1852. It's not.