196. Three Children's Pioneer Stories on the Trail to Zion--Today from Meridian Magazine:
The Proctor's who are the editors for Meridian Magazine have written 3 stories about pioneer children and their adventures and mishaps. They tell of the pioneer's desires to come to Zion, even if they had to send only one or part of a family. Tomorrow, July 24th, I will relate some stories from our own ancestors who also sent some family members ahead, when the family couldn't afford to all come. They showed great faith. Wednesday, July 23 2014 Three Children’s Pioneer Stories on the Trail to Zion By Scot and Maurine Proctor Those wheels west toward a distant mountain valley called Salt Lake and a dream called Zion were so much a part of the thinking of the early Saints that even the separation of family members, sending one at a time as the means could manage, was common. Just to set your foot there, for a son or brother to plant a crop and call it home, for a baby bearing your name to catch its first breath in the mountain air,