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The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
Pioneers 1847–Today. On April 16, 1847, a group of 148 Latter-day Saints in 72 wagons left Nebraska and began the 1,031-mile journey to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley between the 21st and 24th of July 1847.
To better understand this era in Church history, it’s important to know a few key facts: The period of overland emigration of the Mormon pioneers is generally defined as 1847 through 1868. That is when organized companies traveled to Utah by wagon or handcart.
Jul 23, 2015 · Map features sites along the Mormon Trail. Image by Aaron Thorup, Deseret News. A new database provides fresh new insights about Mormon pioneers who traveled to Salt Lake City in 1847, followed by an estimated 70,000 emigrants over the next 20 years.
Included in the database are records of pioneer immigrants to Utah, early missionaries, and Mormon Battalion participants. The Database also provides thousands of source documents to aid your research.
Oct 6, 2009 · The history of the Mormon pioneers who left heartland America after the death of Joseph Smith.
For the last leg of the Latter-day Saint pioneers’ journey, the Mormon Trail diverged and headed southwest from Fort Bridger (in present-day Wyoming) toward Salt Lake City. More than half a million migrants, including the majority of gathering Saints, used this trail system from 1843 until 1868, when the Union Pacific Railroad began to ...
