| Landscape painter, Francis Seth Frost, a Bostonian, made
his first trip West in 1859 as part of the Lander Wyoming Expedition,
which went into Idaho as well as Wyoming. The expedition purpose
was to find a 'cut off' or alternate route to the north of Mormon
occupied lands in response to the Mountain Meadows Massacre in
1857. This killing had occurred in a meadow near Cedar City,
Utah, where Mormon's, allegedly with Indian assistance, had murdered
128 emigrants from Arkansas.&n (showing 500 of 1176 characters). |
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