The term caravan was used to describe groups of people who travelled together across the ancient network for safety reasons, such as merchants, travellers or pilgrims.
And, instead of the usual crowd of the reverents, all we have kneeling before her are two old pilgrims who have plodded miles on their bare and calloused feet.
Even as thousands of intrepid settlers made their way across the Midwestern plains on the Oregon Trail, groups of Mormon pilgrims headed to another destination: Salt Lake City.