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Show Members of Mormon Battalion Group Tour Historic Sites Forty officers and associates of the modern Mormon Battalion Battal-ion visited sites in Parovvan, Cedar City, St. George and Santa Clara Saturday on their 17 tour of Utah, California and Nevada during the holiday holi-day week. The eight-day trek was led by Milton V. Backman, Salt Lake City, president, and Kay Knell of Cedar City, vice pres. (lent, Sons of the Utah Pioneers. Pio-neers. The chartered bus tour tra versed part of the trail blazed I by the original Mormon Battalion Bat-talion which helped win the : far west wor the U. S. in 1846-1 1846-1 47, when they accomplished the world's longest known infantry in-fantry march. The occasion marks the 120th anniversary of the raising of the first Stars and Stripes in California. Other historical sites visited j were located at San Diego, ' Calif., Los Angeles, Monterey, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Oakland, Jackson and Tragedy Spring in California, Califor-nia, and Carson City and Virginia Vir-ginia City in Nevada. Tours of missions along the Spanish Trail featured the route thru California. |