. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ECHO caSon. the left develops farther up the eaflon into pyramids, buttresses and cas-tles honeycombed and fretted in natures own massive magnificence of architecture. In 1856 Echo Cafion was the place selected by Brigham Young forthe Mormon General Wells to fortify and make impregnable against theadvance of the American army, led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. It was to have been the Thermopylae of Mormondom but it wasnt. General Wells was to have done Leonidas but he

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