The story of Zion’s Camp is a well-known tale in Mormon history. Less well known is that the hardship of frontier travel, the mud, the snakes, the weather, the cholera, and the search for food and clean drinking water, was shared not just by the hardy frontier men, but also by a small group of women and children. Mary “Polly” Parker Chidester and her husband John Madison Chidester were natives of New York State, a fact proudly engraved ...
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