A New Bill for The Mormon Trails!
The future of The Mormon Battalion Trail and its possibility of obtaining historic trail status rests in the hands of the National Mormon Trails Association being able to push a new bill through congress.
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2025 Blog
Read all about our trek along the Mormon Battalion Trail!
RootsTech 2025 - Battalion Booth
People are proud of their Battalion Ancestors. We enjoyed meeting many of you today at the Battalion Booth at RootsTech.
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We Have a New Website!
I tried to build one myself but…then God sent Heather Nuffer to my aid! We needed something simple but she jumped right in and voila!
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In the Reading Room at Natl Archives
Here we are in the room where they bring you the documents you request. Everyone has their own space and their own documents. See the cart full of boxes behind Craig in the back corner? You are not allowed to bring in any ink pens, notebooks, or loose papers unless they have been stamped by the archivists. I could look at Laura’s documents but only touch the ones I had checked out.
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Holding History in Our Hands
Kevin’s search through the archives was a challenge but it was fun to see the types of things he did find. The amazing documents you see (and handle) there gives you a real respect for the past. The paper – often brittle and worn, the handwriting mostly beautiful but sometimes illegible. The elegantly designed printing on the old government forms. I was thinking about the hours and hours and hours people spent copying, calculating by hand, and meticulously recording details that we were now looking at! I bet they never imagined in a million years that some in 2025 would be scrutinizing what they wrote.
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Hiking the Hill for Trails
Lobbying for the Mormon Trails extension of "Period of Significance." Laura and Kevin met with congressmen and senators while we were in DC.
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Touching the Past!
We're at the National Archives this week and I got goosebumps when Laura Anderson held up this old bundle of documents and said they were records about the Detachments at Pueblo!
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We Have a Wagon!
Today we were fortunate to find a travel trailer that will serve as “home” for our trek. Nothing fancy, but perfect for two people who will be tired each night and don’t feel like pitching a tent. 😉
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Planning is Under Way!
Kevin & Denny Henson are deep into planning another trail research hike—this one from Pueblo, Colorado to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. This hike will commemorate the 1847 Mormon Battalion detachments and Mississippi Saints journey from their temporary wintering settlement to join Brigham Young’s pioneer company on the Mormon Trail.
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2008-2009 Blog
2008 Forward
“Why, in heavens name, am I doing this?” That question passed through my mind about a thousand times during our hike retracing (as best we could) the 1847-47 Mormon Battalion's “main route” from Iowa to California.
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Preparations
This Trek is being made just for fun because my Scouts got me involved in “living history.” Going the entire 2,000 miles will be challenging, but I trust something worthwhile will come of it.
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January 2009
“I wish I could record this day a happy New year but it has proven the reverse for us …” - Guy Keysor, Pvt., Co B, January 1, 1847
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After Action Report
We sadly announce the passing of Denny's father, Jerry Watts, this morning.
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