“Contents,” Ensign, July 1995, 1
Ensign
July 1995
Volume 25 Number 7
On the cover: Entering Winter Quarters, by Scott M. Snow, oil on canvas, 36″ x 47″ , 1992.
Inside front cover: Up the Trail, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 15″ x 30″, 1987. Yearly, July 24 marks the pioneers’ arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. The route led across the Plains, over hills, and through valleys of the mountainous Western terrain. The journey was hard work at best and often involved backbreaking labor as wagons and handcarts would rumble and creak up the rocky trails. Scenes such as this were typical of the pioneers’ struggles as they wended their way to religious freedom.
Inside back cover: Pine Valley Chapel, by Al Rounds, watercolor on paper, 16″ x 22″, 1985. Courtesy of Mr. Thomas Quinn. Located in a small, high-mountain community thirty-two miles north of St. George in southern Utah, the Pine Valley chapel was built in 1867. It was designed by a former shipbuilder, Ebenezer Bryce, and built in the form of a ship’s inverted hull. Wooden pegs and rawhide strips were used instead of nails in the chapel’s construction.