By December 1847, more than two thousand Mormons had completed the journey to the Salt Lake Valley. The Mormons, U.S. citizens, were driven from their homes and forced to march thousands of miles from Nauvoo, Illinois, located on the Mississippi River, to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. According to church belief, God inspired Brigham Young (Joseph Smith's successor as church president) to call for the Saints (as church members call themselves) to organize and head West, beyond the western frontier of the United States (into what was then Mexico, though the U.S. Army had already captured Santa Fe de Nuevo México and the colonized parts of Alta California in late 1846). In the early 1750s, France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought the country into armed ...read more, On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States five years earlier. Mormon Migration. The Salt Lake Valley became American territory as a result of this war. Led by Brigham Young, the Mormons moved to the western states such as Nebraska, Wyoming, across the Rockies, and to the SW. But it was a bleak cold kingdom, and the Mormons had to … Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 1997. After the initial departure of the Latter-day Saints living in Illinois and Missouri, converts to the church from other areas in the United States and from Europe followed the initial trail to join the main body of the church in Salt Lake City. Mormon emigration stories have been shared over and over through the decades. Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. [8], On February 4, 1846 (the same day the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo began), the ship Brooklyn cleared New York harbor and began its nearly 6-month voyage to the Pacific coast of the then-Mexican Territory of California. The American West 1835-1895, GCSE 9-1 Edexcel. Harriet Page Young, wife of Lorenzo Young, was the first woman selected for the company. By the mid-1960s, U.S. ...read more. On July 23, Pratt offered a prayer dedicating the land to the Lord. This dangerous trek of nearly 24,000 miles (39,000 km) would claim 10 lives of the ship's 238 passengers,[11] nine of whom were buried at sea. Additionally, the "Pioneer" (characterized as "Pioneer Pete") is Lehi High School's mascot. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born in a log cabin near Pepin, Wisconsin, on ...read more, The Seven Years’ War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain and Spain. Shortly after leaving Fort Bridger, the group met trapper Miles Goodyear, who owned a trading post at the mouth of the Weber River. Subject: Moving to Salt Lake City as a non-Mormon. Some 15,000 Mormons wintered at Florence and Council Bluffs the first year of their migration from Nauvoo, ... A massive rescue effort was launched immediately when word of their plight reached Salt Lake City. Brigham Young. Young organized a vanguard company to break the trail west to the Rocky Mountains, gather information about trail conditions, including water sources and Native American tribes, and to ultimately select the central gathering point in the Great Basin. The length of the wagon trail from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City was about 1,300 mile (2,092 km). By 1852, 16,000 Latter-day Saints had come to the valley, some in wagons and some dragging handcarts. He was enthusiastic about the agricultural potential of the large Weber Valley. Some camp members were assigned specific tasks. Convinced that the Mormons would never find peace in the United States, Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, made a bold decision: the Mormons would move to the still wild territories of the Mexican-controlled Southwest. In October 1845, as church members were preparing to leave Nauvoo, the Nauvoo Neighbor printed an extensive list of suggested provisions for each family wagon. It contains lists of passengers in companies as well as genealogical information about ancestors. The Mormon migration is significant as Young successfully migrated thousands of Mormons to the Great Salt Lake, even though they travelled off the Oregon Trail. Since its founding in 1830, members of the LDS Church were often harshly treated by their neighbors, partially due to their religious beliefs, sometimes as a reaction against the actions and the words of the church leaders and members. Salt Lake is a city of duality. In 1849 Gold Rushemigrants h… They settled near the Great Salt Lake, which is now Utah. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemned “lawless behavior” and the violence of rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol in a statement Friday that marked the faith’s first public comments since the Jan. 6 attack by pro-Trump loyalists. Also traveling in the new group were church members from Mississippi who had taken a more southern route toward the Great Basin. Along with the Danish translation of the Book of Mormon, this opened the area to great success in attaining converts. After consulting with Orson Pratt, an accomplished mathematician, he designed a mechanism consisting of a set of wooden cog wheels attached to the hub of a wagon wheel, with the mechanism "counting" or recording by position the revolutions of the wheel. Pratt wrote: ...we could not refrain from a shout of joy, which almost involuntarily escaped from our lips the moment this grand and lovely scenery was within our view. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mormons-begin-exodus-to-utah. The adult labor force, however, was quite small as a high percentage of the group, 53.2 percent were under the age of nineteen. Many of these pioneers walked much of the way as family members rode in the carts. The Mormon migration occured after Governor Boggs issued an extermination order to kill all Mormons in Missouri. Boston New York Chicago Iowa City Salt Lake City MAP 2 MAP 3 MAP 1. While it was difficult to find large areas in the Great Basin where water sources were dependable and growing seasons long enough to raise vitally important subsistence crops, satellite communities began to be formed in all directions. Le Chœur du Tabernacle mormon est une institution chorale fondée en 1847. Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. They were seen as a faster, easier, and cheaper way to bring European converts to Salt Lake City. Several hundred, including Young, returned east to gather and organize the companies scheduled for following years. It was one of those events that virtually nobody witnessed, but many wish they had: the concert at London’s Toby Jug pub on February 10, 1972, when the relatively minor rocker named David Bowie became the spaceman Ziggy Stardust. William Clayton was appointed company scribe and was expected to record an accurate description of their journey and the distance they traveled each day. At that time the LDS Church was urging new members to gather to Utah, which led these early converts to make emigration plans. All Rights Reserved. He sent out a reconnaissance team to plan the route across Iowa, dig wells at camping spots, and in some cases, plant corn to provide food for the hungry emigrants. In 1855, efforts to subdue and evangelize to local Native people led to outposts in Fort Lemhi on Idaho's Salmon River, Las Vegas, Nevada and Elk Mountain in east-central of present-day Utah. Mormon Migration A photograph of Zion’s Commercial Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) in Salt Lake City, with Native Americans on horseback, 1869. All of his information came from the original documents pertaining to the great migration of the Latter-Day Saints which are housed in the Church Historian's Library in Salt Lake City, a diary of what happened from 1842 when prophet and founder Joseph Smith conceived the idea of a westward migration to the day in 1847 when Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. It was almost universally ...read more, On February 10, 1970, an avalanche crashes down on a ski resort in Val d’Isere, France, killing 42 people, mostly young skiers. Il est composé de 360 voix et est habituellement accompagné par l'orgue du Tabernacle mormon, de 11 623 tuyaux, et l'Orchestre de Temple Square1, de 110 musiciens. Tensions in Fort Utah mounted after Mormons murdered Old Bishop,[18] and Young ordered an attack on Utes,[19] called the Battle at Fort Utah. Clayton's design, which he called the roadometer, is the basis for most modern odometers. These southern explorations eventually led to Mormon settlements in St. George, Utah, Las Vegas and San Bernardino, California, as well as communities in southern Arizona. For his role in the migration, Brigham Young is sometimes referred to as the "American Moses.". The next year, 2,500 more made the passage. In July 1847, the first company reached the Salt Lake Valley, with scouts Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt entering the valley on July 21. That’s according to … The communities also served as waystations for migration and trade centered on Salt Lake City during the mid- to late 19th century. During the trip through the rugged mountains, the vanguard company divided into three sections. The initial company would select and break the primary trail with the expectation that later pioneers would maintain and improve it. It was here that Young first met Thomas L. Kane, a non-Mormon from Philadelphia with deep personal connections to the Polk administration. In 1847, just east of the Rocky Mountains, the Kimball family dug a large hole, wrapped their piano in buffalo skins and carefully buried it. Après quinze jours de randonnées et de paysages grandioses, on était un peu sonné en arrivant, mais on en a quand même profité pour tâter l’ambiance farfelue de la ville et découvrir Temple Square, le Vatican des Mormons. Leaving Iowa in July 1856, they did not reach Utah until November, suffering many deaths due to winter weather and the lack of adequate supplies. He was raised Catholic, but is actually now practices something I’m pretty sure is tongue in cheek for atheists. The train contained 73 wagons, one cannon, 93 horses, 52 mules, 66 oxen, 19 cows, 17 dogs and some chickens, and carried enough supplies to fully provision the group for one year. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Brannan negotiated a fare of $75 for adults and half-fare for children with the Captain Abel W. Richardson, master and a principal owner of the ship Brooklyn. Mormons account for 49% of the 1.1 million residents in Salt Lake County — the lowest percentage since at least the 1930s, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Lehi High School is located in Lehi, Utah County. Those leaving from southern California blazed the trail that came to be called the Mormon Trail to southern California. Since its founding in 1830, members of the LDS Church were often harshly treated by their neighbors, partially due to their religious beliefs, sometimes as a reaction against the actions and the words of the church leaders and members. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Utah_Emigration_and_Immigration Conway B. Sonne, Saints on the High Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration, 1830–1890 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983), 69, 126. Jen grew up Mormon but converted to Islam when she learned about the historical mistreatment of black people in her previous religion. In addition, as the discharged men traveled to rejoin their families in the Salt Lake Valley, they moved through southern Nevada and southern Utah. They discussed possible routes into the Salt Lake Valley, and the feasibility of viable settlements in the mountain valleys of the Great Basin. Contact Information: Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail National Park Service 324 South State Street, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 801-741-1012. In 1848, pioneer moved into lands purchased from trapper Miles Goodyear in present-day Ogden. In 1838, Smith set up a new spiritual colony in Missouri, but by 1839, anti-Mormon prejudice there had proved too virulent. Young had little knowledge of the geography and environment of the West and no particular destination in mind, but trusting in God, he began to prepare the people of Nauvoo for a mass exodus. The roadometer showed that the company averaged between fourteen and twenty miles per day. Young, however, had not escaped the troubles that plagued the Church in the East. Brooklyn Place, in Chinatown, San Francisco, is named for the ship,[12] as was the erstwhile Brooklyn, California. Each year during the Mormon migration, people continued to be organized into "companies", each company bearing the name of its leader. Techniques for irrigating crops were investigated. In late February, plans were made to gather portable boats, maps, scientific instruments, farm implements and seeds. An account of the dialogue of the January 31 meeting can be found in BYC, Microfilm reel 80, box 47, folder 6. The larger chain of Mormon settlements, ranging from Canada to Mexico, were initially established as agricultural centers or to gain access to metals and other materials needed by the expanding Mormon population. An ox team retrieved the instrument the following spring and transported it to the Salt Lake Valley.[7]. The first Europeans to settle in the region were the Latter-day Saints, the first of whom arrived in 1847. The two scouts undertook a twelve-mile (19 km) exploratory circuit into the valley before returning to the larger party. The Mormon Influencer Backlash To "The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City" Is A Fascinating Peek At A Side Of Them We Rarely See. [notes 1] Their trail along the north bank of the Platte River and North Platte River and over the continental divide climbing up to South Pass and Pacific Springs from Fort John along the valley of the Sweetwater River, then down to Fort Bridger and thence down to the Great Salt Lake became known as the Mormon Trail. Salt Lake City est connu pour deux choses : les montagnes qui l’entourent – bon endroit pour skier l’hiver, et les Mormons. This impacted the resources and supplies each family could draw upon as they covered the more than 1,000 miles (2,000 km) to the Great Basin. He reported to Young about his group's successful journey and their settlement in what is today San Francisco, California. This covers known and unknown wagon trains from 1847 to 1868. Demographic estimates place 1,611 pioneers in the valley of the Great Salt Lake during the winter of 1847. On July 24, Young first saw the valley from a "sick" wagon driven by his friend, Wilford Woodruff. By 1885, Mormon communities were being established in northern Mexico. Mormon Trail. Bridger explored the area in 1825. Le grand bassin utilisé comme fonts baptismaux est monté sur le dos de douze bœufs comme la mer de bronze dans le Temple de Salomon1. On July 24, 1847, an exhausted Brigham Young and his fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrived in Utah's Great Salt Lake Valley and called it home. However, they arrived in Mexican Alta California just weeks after its occupation by the United States Navy at the outset of the Mexican–American War. By early 1848, the Mormons’ haven became a U.S. territory after the American victory in the Mexican War. During the last week of June, Sam Brannan, leader of the Mormon emigrant ship Brooklyn, met the company near Green River, Wyoming. They had received conflicting advice, but Young chose to follow the trail used by the Donner-Reed party on their journey to California the previous year. Young later reported that he had seen the valley, including Ensign Peak, in a vision and recognized the spot. This colorful schematic map was printed in Denver for the New Wilson European Hotel in Salt Lake City in 1897, one year after Utah statehood, to commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of the Mormons’ arrival. Sidney Rigdon was the First Counselor in the church's First Presidency, and as its spokesman, Rigdon preached severa… The resort at Val d’Isere was operated by a nonprofit youth organization and attracted many ...read more, Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, accused of raping 18-year-old beauty-pageant contestant Desiree Washington, is found guilty by an Indiana jury. While at Fort Laramie, the vanguard company was joined by members of the Mormon Battalion who had been excused from service due to illness and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1844, Smith, and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob while in custody in the city of Carthage, Illinois. Chosen members of the vanguard group were gathered together, final supplies were packed, and the group was organized into military companies. On this day in 1846, Young abandoned Nauvoo and began leading 1,600 Mormons west across the frozen Mississippi in subzero temperatures to a temporary refuge at Sugar Grove, Iowa. The next day, larger segments of the valley were explored, streams and hot springs investigated and the first camp established in the Salt Lake Valley. With the afternoon start, they made three miles (5 km) and camped in a line a few hundred yards from a stand of timber. p. 23, 24. Young also met mountain man Jim Bridger on June 28. The trek of the Mormon pioneers is one of the most inspiring and heartbreaking episodes in U.S and Mormon history. They traveled beyond the boundaries of th… Given the needs of the large volume of Saints who would travel west, church leaders decided to avoid potential conflicts over grazing rights, water access and campsites. In April 1847, Young consulted with members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who had recently returned from the British mission. Church funds were also limited at this time, but church leaders provided what funding and other material assistance they could to families and companies which were undersupplied. Over the course of two months, Brannan managed to recruit 70 men, 68 women, and 100 children—238 persons total. Two years after the death of Smith, Mormon forces rallied and began a pioneer trek into the far West. In 1846, religious tensions reached their peak, and in 1848 mobs burned the Latter-day Saint temple in Nauvoo. Seizing the opportunity to both help future travelers and increase the cash available to the migration, nine men under the direction of Thomas Grover were left behind to construct and operate a ferry at that location. The pioneers traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Great Basin using mainly large farm wagons, handcarts, and, in some cases, personally carrying their belongings. These and other reasons caused the body of the church to move from one place to another—to Ohio, Missouri, and then to Illinois, where they built the city of Nauvoo. The journalists had been covering ...read more. Shortly after the first company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, the community of Bountiful was established to the north. On one occasion, he chastised the camp's hunters for being wasteful of flesh ... killing more than was really needed. [14] The migration of Danes was initiated when missionaries from the LDS Church, including Erastus Snow, Peter O. Hansen and two others, were sent to Denmark in 1850. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Arrested Development, created by Mitchell Hurwitz, premiered in November 2003. The Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel gathers information from journals, church history records, and other materials to locate the company in which an ancestor traveled across the plains to get to Utah. After three weeks, Clayton grew tired of personally counting the revolutions of a wagon wheel and computing the day's distance by multiplying the count by the wheel's circumference. After crossing the Green River, several members of the party suffered from "mountain fever" (probably Colorado tick fever, which is carried by the Rocky Mountain wood tick). It is useful to compare this migration to that of the Donner Party in order to understand what made a successful migration. Sidney Rigdon was the First Counselor in the church's First Presidency, and as its spokesman, Rigdon preached several controversial sermons in Missouri, including the Salt Sermon and the July 4th Oration. Ground was broken, irrigation ditches were dug, and the first fields of potatoes and turnips were planted. The vanguard company now faced a more rugged and hazardous journey, and were concerned about negotiating the passes of the Rocky Mountains. Every year from 1847 until 1869, church members making this journey were formed into organized companies. The three women were joined by a larger group of women church members from Mississippi who merged with the main party at Laramie, Wyoming. The ship Brooklyn sailed from Brooklyn Harbor, New York, and traveled south across the Atlantic equator, around Cape Horn, stopping at the Juan Fernández Islands, then to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), finally docking in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) on July 29, 1846, having made the sea voyage in five months and twenty-seven days. Anyway, he had a really robust social life there, including dating, and said it’s the best place in the state for non-Mormons. Salt Lake City also has the "Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument," where Young, Eliza R. Snow, and other Mormon pioneers are buried and where a memorial exists dedicated to all who crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. Not everyone could afford to transport a family by railroad, and the transcontinental railroad network only serviced limited main routes, so wagon train migrations to the far west continued sporadically until the 20th century. On that day, the caravan reached the Great Salt Lake far to the west of the then United States. In November 1845, Samuel Brannan, newspaperman and small-scale publisher of the Mormon paper The Prophet (later the New York Messenger), was directed by church elders to charter a ship that would carry its passengers away from the eastern United States to California, which was then part of Mexico. As the oxen weakened under the strain, wagons were lightened by discarding prized possessions, including book collections, family china, and furniture. This page was last edited on 7 January 2021, at 19:37. After a hard journey across the western landscape, Young and his followers emerged out onto a broad valley where a giant lake shimmered in the distance. The Mormons settled in the Salt Lake Valley, which at that time was used as a buffer zone between the Shoshones and the Utes, who were at war. 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