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==='''Crossing the Plains'''=== | ==='''Crossing the Plains'''=== | ||
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The Church’s movement to the valley of the Great Salt Lake is the largest organized migration movement in American history spanning from 1846 until 1925. This section covers this major migration. See also [[Mormon Trail]] and [[Handcart Pioneers]]. For more information about other migration movements see [[Latter-day Saint Colonization]] and [[History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. | The Church’s movement to the valley of the Great Salt Lake is the largest organized migration movement in American history spanning from 1846 until 1925. This section covers this major migration. | ||
*See also [[Mormon Trail]] and [[Handcart Pioneers]]. For more information about other migration movements see [[Latter-day Saint Colonization]] and [[History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. | |||
The following indexes list members who crossed the plains before the transcontinental railroad was completed: | The following indexes list members who crossed the plains before the transcontinental railroad was completed: | ||
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Department. ''Church Emigration'', 1831–1881. [Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 199-?] This is available in the [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/archives/0,15481,3940-1-2058,00.html Historical Department—Archive Search Room]. The information was taken from the {{FHL|73388|title-id|disp=Millennial Star}}and the {{FHL|52638|title-id|disp=Journal History}}. <!--{12036924737810} --><!--{12036924737811} --><!--{12036924737812} --> | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Department. ''Church Emigration'', 1831–1881. [Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept., 199-?] This is available in the [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/archives/0,15481,3940-1-2058,00.html Historical Department—Archive Search Room]. The information was taken from the {{FHL|73388|title-id|disp=Millennial Star}}and the {{FHL|52638|title-id|disp=Journal History}}. <!--{12036924737810} --><!--{12036924737811} --><!--{12036924737812} --> | ||
*[[John E Forsgren Company (Forest Monarch) 1853]] | |||
===='''Written Accounts of the Journey'''==== | ===='''Written Accounts of the Journey'''==== | ||
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