| Mormon Pioneer Trail - More than 80,000 Mormon emigrants followed Mormon Pioneer Trail before the coming of the railroad in 1869. Of these, approximately 6,000 lie buried along the way in unmarked graves. Mormons were not the first immigrant group to use the Mormon Pioneer Trail into the Salt Lake Valley. The Donner Party blazed the originally. They spent thirteen days cutting the trail from present-day Henefer, Utah into the Salt Lake, Utah valley. The delay proved disastrous later on when the party was caught in a severe winter storm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
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| Mormon Pioneer Trail - The Mormon migration from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, in the mid 1840's, was a movement of an entire people. Near the end of the thousand-mile trek from the Missouri River to the Great Salt Lake Valley was the last mountain pass on the Mormon Pioneer Trail. Until 1861, this trail was also the route of California gold seekers, Overland Stage, Pony Express, original telegraph line, and other Mormon immigrant companies, after which Parley's Canyon was used. |