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Boone County Caravan Spring

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Near this spring, in September 1857, a caravan of 150 men, women and children gathered and began the ill-fated journey to California. The entire party, except for seventeen small children, was massacred at Mountain Meadows, Utah, by a body of Mormons disguised as Indians.
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