How seagulls saved the pioneers from Mormon crickets

Seagulls fly by as the California Rowing Club trains at the Great Salt Lake, Monday, June 4, 2012.Ravell Call, Deseret News Mormon crickets plagued the Utah area in springtime 1848 while the Saints were desperately trying to get food. Later, this was called “the cricket war.”The Deseret News wrote in 1855, “As for the Saints we are perfectly aware that through faith and obedience they can prevail in the grasshopper war, at least as well as they did in the cricket war of 1848.” But there is a tale of a miracle that occurred that kept the Mormon crickets at bay and led the Saints to...