Members of the Latter-day Saints church who moved to the western U.S. in the 1840s
An engraving published in Le monde in 1874, based on an 1868 drawing of Mormon pioneers by Adrien-Emmanuel Marie.
The Handcart Pioneer Monument, by Torleif S. Knaphus, located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah
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. At the time of the planning of the exodus in 1846, the territory comprising present-day Utah was part of the Republic of Mexico, with which the U.S. soon went to war over a border dispute left unresolved after the annexation of Texas. The Salt Lake Valley became American territory as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war.
The journey was taken by about 70,000 people, beginning with advance parties sent out by church leaders in March 1846 after the 1844 death of the church's leader Joseph Smith made it clear that the group could not remain in Nauvoo, Illinois—which the church had recently purchased, improved, renamed, and developed, because of the Missouri Mormon War, setting off the Illinois Mormon War. The well-organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo), known as the Mormon Exodus is, by convention among social scientists, traditionally assumed to have ended with the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1869. Not everyone could afford to transport a family by railroad, and the transcontinental railroad network only serviced limited main routes, so wagon train migrations to the far west continued sporadically until the 20th century.
The Mormonpioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning...
The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to Salt Lake...
non-Mormons in the same area. Mormons used seasonal harvests, foraged food, and their New England and European backgrounds to make food. Mormonpioneers (hereafter...
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,100 km) long route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormonpioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
pioneer heritage more than international Mormons, who generally are not descendants of the Mormonpioneers. Mormons have a strong sense of communality that...
idealism and utopianism of Young and the early LDS Church. Young and the Mormonpioneers believed "all aspects of life" were in need of reform for the imminent...
states originally settled by Mormonpioneers. It commemorates the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormonpioneers into the Salt Lake Valley...
Members tell stories about Mormonpioneers, The Three Nephites, and unseen benevolent spirits to bolster their faith. In pioneer times, folk songs alternately...
the MormonPioneers entered into the Salt Lake Valley. This day is now a holiday celebrated in Utah, known as Pioneer Day. However, when the Mormon Pioneers...
Mormon folk music is primarily composed of folk music which was sung by Mormonpioneers in present-day Utah from the mid-19th century through the early...
Washington, D.C., to seek assistance from the federal government for the MormonPioneers fleeing from the Illinois mobs. Little arrived in Washington, D.C....
Unfurled" Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Volume 26 Number 4, Winter 1993, pages 71–91. "FlagTerritorial.jpg". pioneer.utah.gov. Archived from the original...
summer." At times, Young or his agents met incoming wagon trains of Mormonpioneers, assigning the groups a secondary destination to establish a new community...
his wives and children. Part of the property was dedicated to the Mormonpioneers who died making the journey to Utah from Illinois and other parts of...
him to leave Nauvoo and join the MormonPioneers in a migration to the Salt Lake Valley. Ricks helped lead his pioneer company and arrived in Bountiful...
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for saving the second harvest of the Mormonpioneers in the Salt Lake Valley. While absent in contemporary accounts, later...
The choir was founded on August 22, 1847, twenty-nine days after the Mormonpioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley. Prospective singers must be church members...
Mormonpioneers. The organization is open to any woman who is: (1) A direct-line descendant or legally adopted direct-line descendant with a pioneer ancestor;...
first permanent nonnative settlement in Nevada. Mormon Station was originally settled by Mormonpioneers and served as a respite for travelers on the Carson...
first Mormonpioneers into the Great Salt Lake valley, the Sons of Utah Pioneers organized an elaborate commemorative journey of the original Mormon trek...
Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley a year before the Mormonpioneers. This group had spent weeks traversing...
During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormonpioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt...
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