Mormon migration 1846-47
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- Mormon migration 1846-47
- Leaving the United States
- Joseph Smith murdered in 1845
- Brigham Young became leader
- September
- Brigham decided they could never live peacefully in the US
- (with gentiles)
- Brigham decided they could never live peacefully in the US
- Decided to move to the Great Salt Lake
- East of the Rocky Mountains
- Very isolated
- Reports
- Fertile farming land
- Water
- Mormons could live close together
- Retain beliefs and practises
- Not in the US
- Mexico
- The journey
- Required careful planning and preparation
- Winter months of 1845-46
- Bought
- Oxen
- Food
- Equipment
- Built
- Wagons
- Bought
- February 1846
- First group set off
- Plan
- Simple
- First groups
- Set up rest camps
- Facilities to repair wagons
- Planted crops
- Set up rest camps
- The rest
- Travel in steady stream
- Separate wagon trains
- About 100 wagons
- Stopping at rest camps
- Separate wagon trains
- Travel in steady stream
- Plan
- First group set off
- Winter Quarters
- Missouri River
- Thousands of cabins built
- House families in winter
- Worked well
- House families in winter
- Mormon wagons arrived by Autumn
- Harsh winter
- Food and supplies ran low
- Disease spread
- Several hundred died
- Buried there
- April 1846
- Pioneer Band went on
- Led by Brigham Young
- 150 men
- 70 wagons
- Trailblazing
- Route
- Deliberately chosen by Brigham Young
- North side of Platte River
- To avoid possible conflict with other travellers
- On Oregon Trail
- To avoid possible conflict with other travellers
- Pioneer group
- Job: to choose the trail
- Ensure it was suitable for wagons
- Later groups maintained it as they travelled
- Rivers
- Constructed fords
- Set up ferries
- Planted food crops
- Job: to choose the trail
- In six weeks
- Reached Fort Laramie
- Stopped for repairs and to rest
- Reached Fort Laramie
- Route
- Pioneer Band went on
- Joseph Smith murdered in 1845
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