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The Mormon corridor is the area where Mormons settled between 1850 and 1890, following the Rocky Mountains from Utah to Mexico. Learn about the history, culture, and geography of this region, and see maps and lists of Mormon communities.
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.
Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West.
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Dec 20, 2017 · Learn about the origins, history and beliefs of Mormons, a religious group that embraces Christianity and revelations from their founder, Joseph Smith. Find out how Mormons live, worship and spread across the world, and what challenges they faced in the past and present.
When members of the LDS Church (the Mormon pioneers) settled in the Salt Lake Valley near the Great Salt Lake in 1847 (then part of the Centralist Republic of Mexico), they wished to set up a government that would be recognized by their home country back east of the United States.
Jan 1, 1981 · Opposed to the often prodigal individualism of the West, Mormons lived in closely knit some say ironclad communities. The story of Mormon country is one of self-sacrifice and labor spent in the search for an ideal in the most forbidding territory of the American West.
- Wallace Stegner
Mar 29, 2012 · Mormon country. by. Wallace Stegner. Publication date. 2003. Topics. Mormons -- Utah -- History, Utah -- History. Publisher. University of Nebraska Press.
