"Romantic" was the word several pioneers used to describe the scenery of May 27, 1847. To the southeast, Chimney Rock. To the southwest, Scott's Bluff, named after a fur trader who died there in 1828.

Orson Pratt:

"THERE CAN BE SEEN TOWERS AND CASTLES OF VARIOUS FORMS AND HEIGHTS; PERPENDICULAR WALLS, SOME OF WHOSE OUTLINES ARE CIRCULAR..."

Five years later, another pioneer passing this way would die of cholera. Rebecca Winters is buried in this grave indentified with some words chiseled on an iron wagon tire. It has survived the expansion of civilization to remain one of the few marked graves of an estimated six-thousand Mormon pioneers who died while crossing the plains.