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Article: Mormon Trail
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- Dictionary of American History
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MORMON TRAIL
MORMON TRAIL.
The Mormon Trail refers to the route the Mormons took after their expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois, in February 1846. They took a well-beaten trail westward, through what is now Iowa, crossing the Missouri River into Nebraska Territory by permission of the Omaha Indians. In April 1847 Brigham Young led 143 men, 3 women, and 2 children west along the Platte River to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, over the old Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger, Wyoming, southwest through Echo Canyon to the Weber River, through East Canyon, and across the Big and Little Mountains of the Wasatch Range. They entered the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah ...
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Article: Thousands still reliving Mormon Trail trek
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
August 7, 2005 ;
700+ words
... ... for the future." The original Mormon Trail extended 1,300 miles over five ... over the trail to settle in the Salt Lake Valley. The exodus occurred before ... and bedding. In Wyoming, the Mormon Trail enters in the southeast part of ...
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