Mormon Battalion – Yuma Crossing
January 11, 2007 this monument was unveiled at the West Wetlands Park in Yuma, AZ honoring the men and women who crossed the Colorado river near this site over 160 year before.


History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry. Philip St. George Cooke – the battalion’s commander

Planning
The original monument committee that continued the work of many before them to remember the sacrifices of those that had passed this way many years before.

