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Do You Celebrate the 24th of July as Pioneer Day?

Unedited Sample Post If you do, you know why I’m asking.

And you very likely know why I have TWO sets of Frontier Favorites that have songs that were popular among American pioneers and settlers in the 19th Century.

I can talk about my sister’s costume for the 1959 Centennial Celebration of Oregon – and how I grew into it by 1961. And won a costume party award the October I was 8.

We were regaled with stories about our ancestors as they trekked – many of them walked – across the continent and landed in Deseret, or died trying to get there.

This is sacred music to us.