Others Who Came

Not everyone reached the valley on the same day. While the main company made its first camp on July 22, 1847, a straggling party came two days behind — slowed by Colorado tick fever, an illness caught crossing the plains. Among these late arrivals, riding in on July 24, was Brigham Young himself, too sick to keep up with the vanguard. That later date, not the first camp, became the one Utah remembers as Pioneer Day. This marker names the delayed company — Young, the Kimballs, Wilford Woodruff, and the rest — who finished the road on the twenty-fourth.

What the plaque says

When the main body of the Pioneer Company camped here July 22, 1847, other members of the Company were in various locations. A group of pioneers and two Mormon Battalion men (James Oakley and George S. Clark) were delayed by Colorado tick fever and entered the valley two days later, July 24. It included: Brigham Young · Ezra T. Benson · Robert E. Baird · George P. Billings · James Case · Thomas P. Cloward · Hosea Cushing · Isaac P. Decker (child) · Benjamin F. Dewey · Howard Egan · Addison Everett · Andrew S. Gibbons · Stephen H. Goddard · Artemas Johnson · Heber C. Kimball · Ellen Sanders Kimball · William A. King · Carlos Murray · Eli H. Peirce · Albert P. Rockwood · Henry G. Sherwood · William C. A. Smoot · Briant Stringham · Thomas Tanner · Horace K. Whitney · Orson K. Whitney · Wilford Woodruff · Clarissa Decker Young · Harriet Page Wheeler Young · Lorenzo S. Young (child) · Lorenzo D. Young Four men had been sent to guide to the valley members of the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachment and a group of Mississippi Mormons who had wintered at Fort Pueblo, Colorado. Amasa M. Lyman and Roswell Stevens of the Pioneer Company John H. Tippets and Thomas-Wolsey of the Mormon Battalion Five men had been sent back along the trail to guide the large Mormon companies following, the first of which reached Salt Lake Valley,September 22, 1847. Rodney Badger · George Woodward · Aaron F. Farr · Eric Glines · Phinehas H. Young Nine men had been left to build and operate a ferry on the Platte River at today's Casper, Wyoming, to aid future companies and earn revenue from other travelers. James Davenport · Thomas Grover · Luke Johnson Frances · Edmund Ellsworth · Appleton M. Harmon · M. Pomeroy · William Empey · John Higbee · Franklin B. Stewart Honor also to the families left behind at Winter Quarters and elsewhere; to 70,000 other Mormons who came in the next 22 years; and to 6,000 whose journeys ended in death somewhere along the trail.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 0.8 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 0.8 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• International Peace Gardens — 2.7 mi
  A hidden garden where 28 countries are represented in miniature
• Salt Lake City — 2.7 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.

More markers nearby

• How the Park Came To Be — steps away
• First Encampment Park — steps away
• Wilford Woodruff's Farm 1850 — steps away
• Herman L. Franks — 0.6 mi