Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Brigham Young and the mallet that drove the last spike

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The mallet that Brigham Young used to drive the last spike on the line that connected Salt Lake City to the transcontinental railroad was inscribed with what words?


a.       Holiness to the Lord

b.      Deseret

c.       This is the mallet, spike, and place

d.      Choose the Right


Yesterday’s answer:


c.   1889


The final emigrating company left the British Isles on 11 May 1889.


Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 156.

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