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Show Just fifty years ago yesterday Brigham Young gave the orders at Winter Quarters for the move toward the great west which was then almost unknown. Out in the wilderness they went , and it seemed as though the curtain ol oblivion dropped behind them hiding hid-ing them from the world forever. But not so for they were the vanguard van-guard of a people who entered these desert valleys turned the life giving waters on the thirsty soil and made the sterile wastes fruitful fruit-ful fields. They set an ensign on a hill that has attracted the gaze of the nations. And yet all this has been done in the short space of half a century. s . u |