Two decades after failing, the LDS Church may soon gain ownership of a sacred site

A quarter century after the church failed to buy Martin’s Cove, a renewed plan that would trade Latter-day Saint land has emerged — and it’s garnering broad support.

(Mike Koshmrl | WyoFile) Debate remains about where the Martin Company's roughly 500 Mormon emigrants took shelter during an October 1856 blizzard. Elders with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1930s christened this nook of the Granite Mountains as "Martin's Cove."

Two decades after failing, the LDS Church may soon gain ownership of a sacred site

A quarter century after the church failed to buy Martin’s Cove, a renewed plan that would trade Latter-day Saint land has emerged — and it’s garnering broad support.

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