17 Facts About Mormon pioneers

Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 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.

The well-organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period, known as the Mormon pioneers Exodus is, by convention among social scientists, traditionally assumed to have ended with the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

Mormon pioneers traveled six days during the week, but generally stayed in camp on Sunday to observe the Sabbath.

Mormon pioneers made regular readings on scientific instruments, took notes on geological formations and mineral resources, and described plants and animals.

Mormon pioneers's was in ill health and Lorenzo Young feared to leave her and their young children behind.

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Mormon pioneers halted for repairs and to reshoe the draft animals.

Mormon pioneers reported to Young about his group's successful journey and their settlement in what is today San Francisco, California.

Mormon pioneers urged the vanguard company to continue on to California but was unable to shift the leader's focus away from the Great Basin.

Mormon pioneers told Young that local Indians raised good crops, including corn and pumpkins, but that there was ever-present danger of frost.

Mormon pioneers was enthusiastic about the agricultural potential of the large Weber Valley.

Mormon pioneers was further divided into groups of 10 and 50 with authority and responsibility delegated downward.

Some Mormon pioneers overestimated the number of goods they could haul on the long journey.

Many of these Mormon pioneers walked much of the way as family members rode in the carts.

In 1848, Mormon pioneers moved into lands purchased from trapper Miles Goodyear in present-day Ogden.

Ute chief Wakara suggested the Mormon pioneers instead move into the Sanpete Valley in central Utah, where they established the community of Manti.

Mormon pioneers's report encouraged 1851 settlement efforts in Iron Country, near present-day Cedar City.

Salt Lake City 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.