Publication: Archaeology Southwest, Vol. 19, No. 2
Author: Alan Ferg
Date of Publication: Spring 2005
PDF File: Ferg-Mormon-History-and-Archaeology-in-Northern-Arizona-1.pdf
Description
In early 1876, Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called a meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, to select men and their families to travel south and establish several Mormon colonies in the Little Colorado River Valley of northern Arizona. Two earlier attempts had been unsuccessful, but a recent scouting report had described the Little Colorado as full of clear water, with rich soil and plentiful pasture.