160 years ago today - May 11, 1858

Gov. Cumming declares the California trail open and says emigrants can once again "pass through Utah territory without hindrance or molestation."

[Source: Linder, Douglas, The Mountain Meadows Massacre Trials, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/mountainmeadows/leechrono.html]

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