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	THE MORMON PIONEER TRAIL
		The Mormon pioneer experience is closely tied to the formation, growth, and development of their church, which was founded by Joseph Smith, April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York.
		Mormon emigrants continued to arrive during the remaining weeks of summer and fall, and approximately 1,650 people spent their first winter in the valley.
		Land ownership along the trail is comprised of 822 miles (64%) on private land, 264 miles (20%) under federal management, and 214 miles (16%) in state and local ownership.
	www.americanwest.com /trails/pages/mormtrl.htm (2744 words)

	Mormon Pioneer Trail .com - Mormon Pioneer Trail Travel Guides - National Historic Trails - Scenic Driving Guides - ...
		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, an entire region, and an entire...
		The Mormon Trail - The Mormon Pioneer Trail - Trail to Zion Valley
		Mormon Pioneer Historic Trail - Mormon Pioneer Handcart Trail - Trail to the Land of Zion
	mormonpioneertrail.com (292 words)

	Mormon Trail Variants
		Though portions of these trails were used by all emigrants heading west, tens of thousands of emigrants followed variations of these trails for short distances or, in some cases, hundreds of miles.
		Trails became known by those who became the first heavy users of the trail for emigration or commerce, hence, the Oregon Trail (1843), Mormon Trail (1846-7), the California Trail (1849-50), and Pony Express Trail (1860-1).
		In Utah, Mormons pioneered both Golden Pass variants, were probably the only emigrants using the Lodge Pole Creek and Whiskey variants in Wyoming, the Wet Weather variant in Nebraska, and all the variants in Iowa.
	mormontrails.org /Trails/Variants/variants.htm (534 words)

	BLM Wyoming Historic Trails -- Mormon Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For those trail buffs who will settle for no less than to travel the trail itself, that opportunity is available, but considerable advance planning and knowledge is required.
		To actually travel the trail, you must have an understanding of land ownership in the area and landowner permission to visit the trail on private lands.
		Ruts, the most noticeable feature of the trail, are areas where the topsoil and original vegetation cover have literally been worn away by thousands of footsteps, animal hooves and wagon wheels.
	www.wy.blm.gov /historictrails/motrail.htm (1479 words)

	The Mormon Trail in Kansas Territory: Pioneer Trails in KS: Kansas Heritage Group
		No great trail came near it although there was one known as the Mormon Trail which passed about one-half mile from where the cabin stood.
		These Mormons came across Kansas from Kansas City to the site of Ft. Riley, then, turning abruptly to the northwest, crossed what is now the military reservation and traveled on to reach the great main trail across Nebraska to Utah.
		However, the trail which diagonally crossed their quarter section was the original Ft. Riley/Ft. Kearny Military road on its way west to the crossing of Madison Creek.
	www.kansasheritage.org /werner/mormroad.html (1813 words)

	Mormon Trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mormon Trail or Mormon Pioneer Trail is the 1,300 mile route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846-1857.
		Furthermore, the departure of the Mormon Battalion left the emigrants short on manpower.
		Big Mountain (1279 miles west) - Although dwarfed by the surrounding Wasatch mountain peaks, this was the highest elevation of the entire Mormon trail at 8,400 feet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mormon_Trail (4492 words)

	Historical Facts Mormon Trail Handcarts Rocky Mountain Landmarks Maps Pictures
		The Mormon migration was not a blind, wandering trek across the Plains.
		As the Mormon wagon trains traveled west, ferries were built and the stream crossings were improved for the trains that would follow.
		Mormons were not the first white settlers in the Great Salt Lake Valley.
	www.thefurtrapper.com /mormon_trail.htm (3451 words)

	Mormon Trail - MormonWiki
		The Mormon Trail is the trail that was traveled by nearly 70,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormon Church) between the years of 1846 and 1869.
		After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, religious persecution in Nauvoo had been increasing, and the leaders of the Church decided in 1846 that it was time to leave and search for a place where they could practice their religious beliefs freely.
		This section of the journey was 116 miles and was probably the hardest part of the trail because they had to get over the Wasatch Range, which was filled with canyons and steep passes.
	www.mormonwiki.com /mormonism/Mormon_Trail (481 words)

	Trails West: Across the Plains-Last updated 01/08/02
		The Applegate Trail Intrepretive Center offers a glimpse into the colorful history of this rugged area through the stories of the pioneer settlers, the naming of Grave Creek, the discovery of gold, the impact of the stageline, and the building of the railroad.
		The Bozeman Trail The Bozeman Trail began as a gold-rush trail--a shortcut from the main trail on the North Platte River to the gold fields of Montana.
		The California National Historic Trail This trail carried over 200,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840's and 1859's, the greatest mass migration in American history.
	www.over-land.com /trwestmid.html (2422 words)

	BLM Wyoming Historic Trails -- Mormon Trail Auto Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This broad pass, the highest point on the trail is at the summit of an almost imperceptible approach to the Continental Divide and was the key to the entire trail system.
		The Mormons purchased the fort from Bridger's partner Louis Vasquez in 1855 and operated it, together with Fort Supply 12 miles to the south, until the fall of 1857.
		The Mormon Pioneer Trail follows the Hastings Cutoff to California that was pioneered by the ill-fated Donner Party in 1846, a year before Brigham Young's initial trip west.
	www.wy.blm.gov /historictrails/mo-tour.htm (2866 words)

	The Mormon Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Mormons were once persecuted and forced from their homes.
		The journey called for strength and courage, as well as faith, for tragedy often stalked their wagons and handcarts, turning this valley into a Mormon "trail of tears." Hundreds of pioneers lie buried along this trail, most in unmarked graves.
		After 1860 the overland trail along the south bank of the river was lined with road ranches and stage stations, but the Mormon Trail had few such conveniences, and the pioneer settlements here in Hall County were almost the last vestiges of civilization until the travelers reached Utah.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /publish/markers/texts/mormon_trail2.htm (237 words)

	LDS Index - Along the Mormon Trail
		In 1997 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrated the sesquicentennial of the Mormon Pioneers' westward migration.
		Participants were encouraged to dress in costume and live the life of the pioneer 150 years ago as they traveled by covered wagon, pulled a handcart, rode a horse, or walked.
		The Oregon Trail was routed around water sources such as the Platte River which flowed through two states.
	www.lds-index.org /ARCHIVES/AR021798.HTM (539 words)

	Westward Expansion--Trails West-Last updated 03/10/01
		The California Emigrant Trail and Northern Nevada Between the years 1841 and 1869 it is estimated that 300,000 to 500,000 hardy souls walked two-thousand miles across the continent to California and Oregon in search of a new life or gold.
		The Chilkoot Trail The most famous route taken by prospectors and would be miners who made their way to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon.
		The Lodgepole Trail The Lodgepole Trail branched off from the Oregon-California Trail in western Nebraska and crossed the South Platte at the Upper California Crossing at the mouth of Lodgepole Creek near where old Julesburg was established.
	www.over-land.com /trwest.html (2176 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Thousands still reliving Mormon Trail trek
		And while they are not near modern highways, these parallel grooves in the sand and clay are again attracting tens of thousands of pioneers from around the world who seek to relive the experiences of their ancestors.
		In an effort to reduce damage to the historic Mormon Trail, the number of modern-day trekkers is being limited to 7,500 this year and will be further scaled back to 5,000 in 2006.
		In Wyoming, the Mormon Trail enters in the southeast part of the state, heads northwest to Casper and then southwest to Utah.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600153025,00.html (1018 words)

	Mormon Pioneer Trail History \| Utah.com
		They chose not to follow the trail over Donner Hill, but instead, built a road at the base of the hill to the north.
		The end of the Mormon Pioneer Trail is generally considered to be at the mouth of Emigration Canyon, where This is the Place Monument is located.
		Since the route over Donner Hill was too rough, the Mormons spent four hours cutting a mile-and-a-half of new road around the north end of Donner Hill to rejoin the Donner tracks on the high ground south of present Hogle Zoo.
	www.utah.com /mormon/pioneer_trail_history.htm (901 words)

	Mormon pioneers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
		A new route on the north side of the Platte River was chosen to avoid major interaction with travelers using the established Oregon Trail on the river’s south side.
		Their trail along the Platte River and over the Sweetwater River became known as the Mormon Trail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mormon_Pioneer (2934 words)

	>MORMON TRAIL IN VAN BUREN COUNTY IOWA
		Part II Trails criss-crossed Van Buren County by 1840 and without the annoyance of fences and established property lines, they ran mostly where the traveling was easiest.
		Of all the trails in the county, the Mormon trail is the best known, even though the Mormons mostly used already marked trails throughout the county as they moved west.
		The previously described route is the main Mormon Trail, but the Mormons fanned out all over the county to secure work to finance their trek to Utah.
	showcase.netins.net /web/villages/mormnew.htm (1394 words)

	Mormon Trail across Nebraska
		They were the Mormon people and in 1847 they began the greatest organized mass migration of a single group in America's history.
		With the beginning of the Gold Rush in 1849, the Mormons were forced to the south side of the river by the onrush of tens of thousands of gold seekers headed to California.
		As the Gold Rush dwindled, the Mormons again returned to the northern trail in 1856, many using a new form of transportation-handcarts.
	www.westnebraska.com /Area_Attractions/MormonTrail.htm (440 words)

	Historic Florence - Attractions - Mormon Trail Visitors Center
		In the year 1846, anything west of the Missouri River was known as "Indian country." When the Mormons arrived at the Missouri River (on the Iowa side), the U.S. government made arrangements with the Indian nations to allow the Mormons to camp on the western side of the Missouri River for two years.
		Today, you can visit the Mormon Trail Center at 3215 State St, a monument to the trials and tribulations of the early pioneers.
		The Mormon Trail Center, opened in April 1997 has been providing tours of the local area history ever since.
	www.historicflorence.org /Attractions/mormontrail.htm (238 words)

	Mormon Trail
		The trail is 4.6 miles long, for a 9.2 mile out-and-back bike trip.
		Vertical rise is 1400 feet, to an altitude of 7400 feet at the pass.
		Initial altitude is 6000 feet, which means the lower portion of the trail can be a mite warm in the middle of the day.
	www.utahmountainbiking.com /trails/mormon.htm (784 words)

	Trail of Oregon .com - The Oregon Trail - The Oregon Trail Travel Guides - It started in Independence, Missouri and ...
		Trail of Oregon.com - Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered...
		Jim Bridger was born in Virginia in 1804 and was a storybook frontiersman.
		He was the founder of Fort Bridger on the Trail of Oregon or Oregon Trail in 1843.
	trailoforegon.com (469 words)

	The Mormon Trail
		In the spring of 1879, Silas Smith and twenty five special scouts were "called" by the Mormon Church to find a place in Southern Utah for a Peace Mission on the northern edge of the Navajo Nation.
		At this point by means of picks, shovels, bars, hammers, drills and a limited amount of fl powder, they blasted a dugway down the cliff face to the river.
		On April 6, 1880, they reached the mouth of Cottonwood Wash, having been on the trail for six months instead of the six weeks originally planned; half of the group stopped and settled there in what is now known as Bluff.
	bcn.boulder.co.us /environment/cacv/cacvmorm.htm (626 words)

	Mormon Trail News Archive
		The Mormon Militia, under the leadership of Lot Smith, attacked a train under the supervision of Lewis Simpson at the hollow.
		Although not a Mormon, Kane was trusted by the members of the church and Brigham Young.
		Cubin noted that "history and the West is something that you have to experience to truly understand." Speaking of the Mormon Pioneer trail - and other emigrant routes - Cubin said she supports efforts by Casper-area residents to construct a National Trails Center.
	www.casperstartribune.net /trails/mormon/mormonnews_detail.php?ID=107 (957 words)

	The Mormon Pioneer Trail
		The Mormon Trail is 1,032 miles from Winter Quarters (near Florence, Nebraska) to Salt Lake City, Utah.
		The Mormon Trail was used for 23 years, from 1846 to 1869.
		The trail was not a narrow path, but rather a corridor, depending on the river, on available grass, on the terrain, events of the year and other factors.
	omaha.adamhaeder.com /trails (746 words)

	The Pacific Crest Trail .com - The Pacific Crest Trail Travel Guides - National Historic Trails - Scenic Driving Guides ...
		The Pacific Crest Trail was established as one of the first National Scenic Trails in 1968 and formally dedicated in 1993.
		The Pacific Crest Trail is a wilderness footpath that covers 2650 miles across three western states from Mexico to Canada, California to Oregon and across Washington into Canada.
		This long trail has a lot of diversity from the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada where the elevation is over 11,000 feet to the hot Mojave Desert.
	thepacificcresttrail.com (632 words)

	Mormon Pioneer Trail
		This trail is quite smooth, but gets a bit steeper as it climbs the switchbacks to the pass.
		At the top of the pass, you can link to the Mormon Trail in Little Emigration Canyon, ride around the advanced-tech Lookout Peak loop, or ride south towards Bald Mountain.
		Trail begins paved at GPS N 40° 46.622' W 111° 41.317', then turns to cinder as you pass close by a picnic table.
	www.utahmountainbiking.com /trails/mormon2.htm (682 words)

	South Pass Oregon Mormon Trail Lander Cutoff Markers Facts Maps Pictures>
		One of the first tasks when the Oregon and Mormon Trail wagon trains stopped at night was to gather armfuls, or aprons full, of dried buffalo chips.
		To fur traders, mountain men, and the Oregon and Mormon Trail immigrants, Chimney rock marked the end of plains travel and the beginning of the mountains on the overland trails.
		The Oregon and Mormon trails in many places were several miles wide, but when the emigrant wagons used the same part of the trail, the heavy loaded wagons of the Oregon Pioneers, the Mormon emigrants, and the California Gold Miners often left wagon ruts six feet or better deep.
	www.thefurtrapper.com /historical_landmarks.htm (1267 words)

	Oregon Trail, California trail, Mormon trail and Pony Express trail historical museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Oregon Trail was the only practical way for early pioneers to get across the mountains into the Western United States and what is now Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho and Utah.
		California Trail history provides a fascinating perspective on the massive migration to and through the states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and California.
		Much of the original trail no longer exists and the actual route and length is open to debate by historians.
	www.casperwyoming.info /trails_center.html (587 words)

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