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Hill, William E.

The Mormon Trail : Yesterday and Today

Logan, UT

Utah State University Press

1966

Part history, part resource book, part guide, and part photographic essay, The Mormon Trail Yesterday and Today is an essential reference for readers of all ages who are interested in the Mormon trek west. In conjunction with the sesquicentennial of one of the most dramatic migrations in American history, William E. Hill now applies his expertise to the Mormon migration. Driven from their home in Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young, began in 1846 their journey west to an expected haven in the Great Salt Lake Valley. The first party arrived there in July 1847. Thousands of members and converts later followed the Mormon Trail, which for much of its way traced the route of the Oregon Trail, although it generally stayed across the Platte River from the more-traveled way. It was thus, until the railroad's arrival in 1869, one of the West's most important and heavily used roads. Although the Mormons' experience was in most ways similar to that of other emigrants, the religious motivations, tight organization, and family groups of the Mormons gave their migration a distinct character. William Hill introduces the Mormons, their eventful early history, and the characteristics of the migration west. His book also includes a chronology of trail-related events, excerpts from diaries and guidebooks, songs, historical maps, over 200 then and now illustrations, descriptions of major museums and displays on the trail, and recommendations for further reading.

Mormon Trail
Pioneers of 1847

A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
Faithful and Fearless : Major Howard Egan : Early Mormonism and the Pioneering of the American West
Gathering in Harmony : A Saga of Southern Utah Families, Their Roots and Pioneering Heritage, and the Tale of Antone Prince, Sheriff of Washington County
Pushing and Pulling to Zion: The Eighth Handcart Company Trek Day by Day in 1859
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism

111 Days to Zion
An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah
A Pioneer Mormon Diary : Patty Sessions
A Trip Across the Continent
Brigham Young: American Moses
By Windjammer and Prairie Schooner, London to Salt Lake City : Jean Rio Baker
Centennial Caravan
'Down and Back' Wagon Trains : Bringing the Saints to Utah in 1861
Fort Supply : Brigham Young's Green River Experiment
From Kirtland to Salt Lake City
Gold Rush
Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies
Handcarts to Zion : The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860
Historic Resource Study : Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Historic Sites and Markers Along the Mormon and Other Great Western Trails
I Walked to Zion : True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Journal of a Mormon Woman, 1863 : Mary Elizabeth Lightner
Lansford Warren Hastings : Scoundrel or Visionary?
Liverpool to Utah in 1866 by Sailing Ship and Prairie Schooner
Mormon Immigration in the 1860s : The Story of the Church Trains
My Journal
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Platte River Road Narratives
Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860 : A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier
Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 : And to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44
Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley
Saints on the Seas : A Maritime History of Mormon Migration, 1830-1890
The Daily Notes of Sarah Pratt, 1852
The Gathering of Zion : The Story of the Mormon Trail
The Great Platte River Road : The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
The Latter-day Saints' Emigrants' Guide
The Mormon Church : A Basic History
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Negro Pioneer
The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Travelers' Guide to Historic Mormon America
The Year of Decision, 1846
Trailing the Pioneers : A Guide to Utah's Emigrant Trails, 1829-1869
West from Fort Bridger : The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails across Utah 1846-1850
William Clayton's Journal : A Daily Record of the Journal of the Original Company of 'Mormon' Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake