Arkansas Ties ... A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That, and a Whole Lot of Arkansas

Caravan Springs - Mountain Meadows Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas   Boone County Caravan spring Near this spring, in September 1857 gathered a caravan of 150 men, women, and children who here began the ill-fated journey to California. The entire party with the exception of seventeen small children was massacred at Mountain Meadows Utah by a body of Mormons disguised as Indians. 1936 Arkansas Centennial Commission.