Mormon Trail: Difference between revisions

''' Histories'''

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/378061 Wallace Stegner. ''The Gathering to Zion: the Story of the Mormon Trail.'' Salt Lake City,Utah: Westwater Press, 1981]

* Erick Wadsworth. '' The Last Outfitting Station - the Missouri River. 1864 to 1866: Wyoming, NT and the Nebraska City Cut-Off Trail. ''Trail Publishing, 2019.

*Stanley B. Kimball and Violet T. Kimball. ''Villages on Wheels. A Social History of the Gathering to Zion.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Greg Koffard Books, 2011.

== Main Route  ==

   

The Mormon Trail usually followed the north side of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Platte_River North Platte River] west through [[Nebraska, United States Genealogy|Nebraska]] and [[Wyoming, United States Genealogy|Wyoming]] to follow the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetwater_River_%28Wyoming%29 Sweetwater River] farther west. The trail went over [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pass South Pass], then worked its way through the mountains. Pioneers crossed the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_%28Utah%29 Green River] at [http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/trailsdemo/lombard_ferry.htm Lombard Ferry], headed for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bridger Fort Bridger], and forded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_%28Utah%29 Bear River] before reaching [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Echo_Canyon.jpg Echo Canyon]. Their last camp on the trail was often near the Old Fort at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City. The Mormon Trail overlapped parts of the [[Oregon Trail]] and [[California Trail]] which normally stayed on the south side of the North Platte River. The Oregon Trail took [http://www.nps.gov/cali/parkmgmt/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=542813 a more northerly route] after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_%28Utah%29 Green River] into [[Idaho, United States Genealogy|Idaho]] and [[Oregon, United States Genealogy|Oregon]]. The California Trail [http://www.nps.gov/cali/parkmgmt/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=542813 continued west] from Salt Lake City (or from the Oregon Trail at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hall Fort Hall, Idaho])<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "California Trail" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Route (accessed 9 July 2011).</ref> into [[Nevada, United States Genealogy|Nevada]] and [[California, United States Genealogy|California]].  

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'''Winter Quarters'''

'''Perpetual Emigration Fund.''' Pioneers who received financial assistance immigrating to Utah were expected to repay their debt. In 1877 a list of persons who still owed money was created. For details see the [[Perpetual Emigration Fund]] Wiki page. <br>  

*International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, ''Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude'', 4 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah&nbsp;: International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, c1998). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41715246 WorldCat entry]. {{FSC|829588|item|disp=FS Library Book 979 D36p}}.  

*''Biographical record of Salt Lake City and vicinity&nbsp;: containing biographies of well known citizens of the past and present'' (Chicago, Illinois&nbsp;: National Historical Record, 1902). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10049081 WorldCat entry]. {{FSC|206568|item|disp=FS Library Film 1000615 Item 2; Book 979.225 D3b}}.<br><br>

*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Utah_Pioneer_Biographies Utah Pioneer Biographies - Surnames by Volume]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287987 Utah. Semi-centennial Commission.''The book of the pioneers who arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847 : including the names, ages, autographs and location of all the survivors who could be found on July 24, 1847, "the year of the Jubilee!"'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Geo. Q  Connon & Sons Co., 1897?]  

'''Written Accounts of the Journey''' descriptions are found in order by year and pioneer company in Melvin L. Bashore, and Linda L. Haslam, ''Mormon Pioneer Companies Crossing the Plains 1847–1868. Narratives. 3rd rev. ed.'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 1990). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22010162 WorldCat entry]. {{FSC|594278|item|disp=FS Library Film 1592752 item 6; Book 289.3016 B291m}}.

*[http://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/ Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869. BYU Harold B. Lee Library]

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