MODESTO, Calif -- When God created southeastern Utah, he probably didn't have Conestoga wagons in mind.

The same goes for positraction.

Allee Hamilton of Modesto, husband Alan and their eldest son, Troy, discovered this last month when they joined two dozen other family members to retrace the steps of Mormon ancestors who blazed a trail through southeastern Utah in 1879.

The difference? Their kinfolk covered some of the West's most rugged and treacherous terrain in covered wagons, afoot or on horseback.

The modern-day contingent used five four-wheel drive vehicles and a couple of motorcycles to cross some of the roughest country in the state.

This is the kind of thing people do to understand the hardships their forebears endured and to pass down the family heritage to the younger generations.



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