The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. Nauvoo, Illinois was the principal “starting point” of the trail, the original
settlement location of the Church of Latter Day Saints. The trail is essentially the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trails, with all three collectively known as the Emigrant Trail. The Mormon trail was the main method that mormon Pioneers used to travel to Salt Lake city, which was the central point of the religion
settlement location of the Church of Latter Day Saints. The trail is essentially the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trails, with all three collectively known as the Emigrant Trail. The Mormon trail was the main method that mormon Pioneers used to travel to Salt Lake city, which was the central point of the religion
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Brigham Young was born in 1801, and following the death of Joseph Smith he became the second president of the Church of Ladder Day Saints, leading the churches members in a great migration to territory that was then in Mexico, and is now Utah, specifically Salt Lake City. He was a polygamist, and was extremely opinionated and controversial, and went on to be the longest serving leader of the Mormon Church.
Born in December 1805, Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon, and shortly thereafter became both a religious and political leader in Nauvoo, Illinois. After several years of leadership, Smith was murdered in the then capitol city of the Mormon Church. The leadership was then left to Brigham Young, who moved the religion along the trail to Salt Lake City, Utah.