Still only 35 miles from Winter Quarters, this day again became one of coming and going for the Mormon pioneers. Brigham Young returned to Winter Quarters for one last meeting of the church's leaders.

The rest of the camp moved on up the relatively flat flood plain between the Elkhorn and the Platte Rivers. Among them, the three women who would make the trek west: Harriet Decker Young, Clara Decker Young, and Ellen Sanders Kimball.

HOWARD EGAN: "...WE WENT ON AND ENCAMPED ON THE BANKS OF THE PLATTE RIVER, THE WIDTH OF WHICH MUCH SURPRISED ME, IT BEING LARGER THAN I HAD ANTICIPATED."

Nine years later, others would settle this area and name their town after the explorer John C. Fremont.