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*[https://winterquarters.byu.edu/ Winter Quarters Project] | *[https://winterquarters.byu.edu/ Winter Quarters Project] | ||
*[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] | *[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] | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/599728?availability=Family%20History%20Library Lyndon W. Cook. ''Death and marriage notices from the Frontier Guardian, 1849-1852.''Orem, Utah : Center for Research of Mormon Origins, 1990. FHL 977.1 V2c] | |||
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> | ||