Pioneer by Robert Barrett Color_Pink - Isaiah 53:6

- Isaiah 53:6

and I take a great deal of personal responsibility in painting the Savior - my Savior

perhaps pondering the wondrous miracle of the coming Messiah whom she was chosen to bear

-Moses 4:4

Nauvoo was once an empty bluff on the Mississippi River

Pioneer by Robert Barrett Color_Pink - Isaiah 53:6About this Image: Though many pioneers experienced hardship and tragedy on their journey, not all memories were sad. The broad prairies were covered with lush grass and dotted with larkspur, verbena, and geranium and offered vistas of dramatic beauty. My own great grandmother Elna Jorgensen crossed these plains with her family as a teenager. Her family left Sweden for Utah in October of 1855, but they did not enter the Salt Lake Valley until September