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Forging a Road to Zion

by | Jun 1, 2004 | Travel & Preservation

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In 1847, Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, organized a pioneer party and struck out west from the Missouri River to find a new home for his Mormon followers. With 143 men, three women and two children, Young forged a 1,181-mile trail that ended west of the Wasatch Mountain Range within view of modern Utah’s Great Salt Lake. The Mormons literally built a road across the country as they traveled west. Men in the pioneer party, knowing that their fami


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