Item Detail
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English
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The Mormon Trail Network in Iowa 1838-1863 : A New Look
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BYU Studies
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Fall 1981
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21
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4
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417-30
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"For twenty-five years during the mid-nineteenth century thousands of Mormons traversed Iowa, developing a network of trails aggregating over 1,100 miles; that is more than their somewhat better-known trails in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah combined. Between 1838 and at least 1863, Mormons crisscrossed a four-county-high tier stretching across the southernmost part of the state, the Mormon Mesopotamia between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Up to now interest in and knowledge of Iowa trails have focused largely on the Pioneer Route of 1846 and the Handcart Trail of 1856-1857. But there were many other trails and variants, and we are just now beginning to appreciate the dimensions and magnitude of Mormon travel in Iowa. A new picture of Mormon migrations in that state is emerging, showing Iowa to be the most widely and frequently traversed of all states through which the early Mormons moved." [Publisher's abstract]
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