Historical Marker
Mormon Monument (Bear River)
Uinta County · Wyoming
Erected by Woodruff Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1924
The day the plate names was the day the company split. On July 12, 1847, the pioneers forded the Bear River here, its current fast over a bed of boulders, and before the noon halt Brigham Young came down with mountain fever. Eight wagons stayed behind with him; that night he was too sick to know where he was, and the next day an advance company under Orson Pratt went ahead to open the road. Young reached the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, two days after the first wagons, the date Utah keeps as Pioneer Day.
What the plaque says
Erected by the members of the Woodruff Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in honor of the Pioneers who passed this spot July 12, 1847 under the leadership of Brigham Young Dedicated Sept. 28, 1924
Where it stands
41.16591, -110.86926 · Directions
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