Lower End of Mormon Hollow

 In 1846 Mormon Hollow is the area which Big Elk provided for the Mormons to stay and shelter from the extreme Nebraska heat.  This was likely a smaller group of the immigrating Saints.  They only stayed there a short time before Brigham Young asked them to move north, to Cold Springs and then to CUtlers Park and Winter Quarters.  He said there was not room there for a large group of Saints.  I have hiked to the upper Mormon Hollow which is very narrow and would have been difficult for wagons to stay.  There is more room at the bottom, which would have been just off of the Missouri River which I understand at the time flowed through where the marsh is now.  Even though there is more room, and the trees provide shelter, there was not room for the entire body of emigrants.  Since the path of the river has gone father east and left the Gifford peninsula.  There is also clearly water in this area.  Mormon Hollow is now part of Fontenelle Forest,