July 2013 trip to Wyoming's Brigham Young Pioneer Vanguard Trail.

During my recent visit to Northern Utah my cousins chauffeured me (in a big truck) to some of the early nearby Wyoming pioneer trail sites. This rock arrow is purportedly what remains of an arrow Brigham Young left to direct travelers who came after him. Our great great Grandparents Nicholas and Elizabeth Thompson Groesbeck passed this way with the John Banks Company in 1856.

This marker is for a crossing of the Muddy. Presently there is very little water near the site.

These large old trees are evidence of earlier moisture. Nothing more than the creek below, with a bridge built over it for modern-day pioneers to pull their handcarts across. It was beautiful and green, if not muddy.

Markers have been added at actual pioneer grave sites along the trail.

High on this sandstone rock  Philo Dibble Jr. carved his name here while hiding out from Johnston's Army in 1857.
  

Very near the sandstone carving pictured above is this marker. It identifies the site as part of the original Pioneer Trail.

On a highway northeast of Evanston, Wyoming stands this marker that reads:

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 20, 1924

The monument was dedicated by Great Grandfather William Rex (1844-1927). His then six-year-old granddaughter Winifred Rex Andrus, attended the dedication, and wrote her name with others on a paper that was left inside of the monument.