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In 1846, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneers, were driven from their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois. They spent the winter in Nebraska, and the first company left with Brigham Young as their leader in the spring of 1847. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.
Jul 21, 2010 · July | 24. After 17 months and many miles of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 pioneers into Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Gazing over the parched earth of the remote location, Young ...
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,100 km) long route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) traveled from 1846–47. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System , known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail .
Utah Mormons often emphasize pioneer heritage more than international Mormons, who generally are not descendants of the Mormon pioneers. A Mormon meetinghouse used for Sunday worship services in Brazil. Mormons have a strong sense of communality that stems from their doctrine and history.
Jul 20, 2017 · 20 July 2017. Mormon pioneers who left a legacy of faith are examined in a series of articles celebrating 170 years since the arrival of the first company of Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. As the Church observes 170 years since the arrival of the first company of Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, a Church News ...
The Arrival of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Emigrants in Salt Lake City. Fred E. Woods. Reunion of the Saints, by C. C. A. Christensen. (Courtesy of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.) A number of articles, books, and lengthy essays have been written during the past century and a half on Mormon immigration and emigration by land and sea. [1]
Jun 25, 2019 · The Mormon trail was almost 1,300 miles long and crossed great plains, rugged lands, and the Rocky Mountains. The pioneers mostly traveled the Mormon trail by foot as they pushed handcarts or drove wagons pulled by a team of oxen to carry their meager possessions. Take a tour of the Mormon trail by following this map of The Pioneer Story.
