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 ferry operation. Prior to that, you just forwarded the river and found the shallow spot and hoped the river was shallow enough to ford it and the ferry operations became a safer way to cross so once they cross their party, they realized there were a lot of immigrants on the trail and we can help others for a small fee. They set up a ferry operation during the migration period each summer in the first
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