"Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced into the country by the Mormons; that at the time of the persecution, when they left Missouri and struck out into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God in their own way, the members of the first exploring party, crossing the plains to Utah, scattered sunflower seeds as they went. The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, tey had the sunfower trail to follow." -My Antonia by Willa Cather, page 27.
