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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.
Learn about the Latter-day Saint pioneers who left their homes and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and beyond. Explore online exhibits, biographies, sites, and stories of their faith and legacy.
Learn about the period, methods, and challenges of overland emigration of the Mormon pioneers from 1847 to 1868. Find out how the Church organized, regulated, and supported the travel of tens of thousands of people to Utah.
- Most of the pioneers did not die. Despite the fact that tens of thousands of pioneers survived to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, the idea of pioneer death has been perpetuated in popular culture.
- Very few pioneers pulled handcarts. Monuments, murals, movies, and music have also enshrined the image of a struggling pioneer family pulling a handcart across the plains.
- Pioneers actually had fun. If most of the pioneers weren’t dying or pulling handcarts, what did they actually do? Their diaries, letters, and other records show that in addition to completing the tasks and chores of traveling, most of them had fun.
- Many of the pioneers traveled east. One of the striking features of pioneer diaries and letters is how often they met other pioneers going the opposite direction on the trail.
Find information about over 100,000 early Latter-day Saints who built Christ's kingdom on the earth, including pioneers, missionaries, and Mormon Battalion participants. See your ancestors in the database and access 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 ...
