CSPAN3 American History TV August 16, 2014
1847. Brigham young and the planar party are moving west and they get to this location and they need to get across the north platte river. It does not look overly intimidating but that but back then, there were not dams upstream and you did not have a regular to channel. When they get here on june 12, youve got a big river that you have to contend with. In june, youve got the snowmelt coming out of the mountains on the river is as big as it will be all year whenever the pioneers are showing up here. Were looking at a river that is almost 1000 feet across. What they had done as they built a fer...
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