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Nauvoo, Illinois from 1839 to 1845 was a gathering place for members of [http://lds.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (sometimes called "Mormons"). In 1846 hostile neighbors forced an exodus of the main group out of Nauvoo across Iowa to the area near where Omaha, Nebraska would eventually be built. Most Mormon pioneers stayed there in "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Quarters_%28North_Omaha,_Nebraska%29 Winter Quarters]" and in 1847 completed the journey to Salt Lake City in Utah Territory, their new gathering place.<ref name="PioSto">"The Pioneer Story : The Mormon Pioneer Trail" in ''The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'' at http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pioneer/pioneerstory.htm (accessed 8 July 2011).</ref> | Nauvoo, Illinois from 1839 to 1845 was a gathering place for members of [http://lds.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (sometimes called "Mormons"). In 1846 hostile neighbors forced an exodus of the main group out of Nauvoo across Iowa to the area near where Omaha, Nebraska would eventually be built. Most Mormon pioneers stayed there in "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Quarters_%28North_Omaha,_Nebraska%29 Winter Quarters]" and in 1847 completed the journey to Salt Lake City in Utah Territory, their new gathering place.<ref name="PioSto">"The Pioneer Story : The Mormon Pioneer Trail" in ''The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'' at http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pioneer/pioneerstory.htm (accessed 8 July 2011).</ref> | ||
*[[Winter Quarters, Utah]] | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/627357?availability=Family%20History%20Library Richard E. Bennett. ''Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852 : "And should we die. . ."Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, c1987. FHL 978.2 H2be] | |||
Each of the following years until 1869 several areas in [[Nebraska, United States Genealogy|Nebraska]], [[Iowa, United States Genealogy|Iowa]], or [[Kansas, United States Genealogy|Kansas]] were used as staging areas for the four-month trip on the Mormon Trail across the plains into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains Rocky Mountains] to Salt Lake City. Several sets of new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_trains wagon trains] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcart_company handcart companies] came each year to Salt Lake City. By the time the [[First Transcontinental Railroad|transcontinental railroad]] was completed to Utah in 1869 about 70,000 pioneers had walked, pulled a handcart, or ridden a wagon or carriage to [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]].<ref name="PioSto" /> See also [[LDS Emigration and Immigration|LDS Emigration and Immigration]] and [[Handcart Pioneers|Handcart Pioneers]].<br> | Each of the following years until 1869 several areas in [[Nebraska, United States Genealogy|Nebraska]], [[Iowa, United States Genealogy|Iowa]], or [[Kansas, United States Genealogy|Kansas]] were used as staging areas for the four-month trip on the Mormon Trail across the plains into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains Rocky Mountains] to Salt Lake City. Several sets of new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_trains wagon trains] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcart_company handcart companies] came each year to Salt Lake City. By the time the [[First Transcontinental Railroad|transcontinental railroad]] was completed to Utah in 1869 about 70,000 pioneers had walked, pulled a handcart, or ridden a wagon or carriage to [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]].<ref name="PioSto" /> See also [[LDS Emigration and Immigration|LDS Emigration and Immigration]] and [[Handcart Pioneers|Handcart Pioneers]].<br> | ||