Today we are celebrating Pioneer Day, because 162 years ago today, the main body of the saints first arrived in the Salt Lake valley in 1847. But what they don't mention too often is that a few days before, on July 21, 1847, Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow got there first.
Orson Pratt was officially the very first Latter-day saint pioneer to reach the valley, but it would have been his travelling companion Erastus Snow, except earlier in the day Erastus had laid his coat down on the ground and had forgotten it, and had to walk back to find it.
Erastus Snow was my husband Wayne's paternal great great grandfather. I guess Wayne's legacy from Erastus is that he inherited Erastus's ability to lose things.
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