"[1] The 1996 monument is located "five miles northeast of San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico [...] near the dead end of a road reached via exit 257 on Interstate 25.

[4] Its dedication, held in June 1940, was attended by thousands, including the Church of Jesus Christ leader George Albert Smith and U.S. Army Adjutant General R. C.

[1] (The original monument was designed and built by Joaquin Antonio Bazan after a group of members of the Church of Jesus Christ came to him and commissioned him to do so.

With crow bar and pick and axe in hand, we have worked our way over mountains which seemed to defy aught save the wild goat, and hewed a pass through a chasm of living rock more narrow than our wagons.

To bring these first wagons to the pacific, we have preserved the strength of our mules by herding them over large tracts, which you have laboriously guarded without loss.

Sponsored by the Committee for the Erection of the Mormon Battalion Monument in New Mexico and the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association, built through the donation of many friends.