Publication: The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 28, No. 1
Author: Rev. R. E. Harvey
Date of Publication: July 1946
PDF File: Harvey-1946-The-Mormon-Trek-Across-Iowa-Territory.pdf
URL: http://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/id/6517/
Description
The Mormon migration of 1846 from Illinois to Utah constituted the greatest mass movement under a single direction in all United States history; nor did any one of the many religious colonies planted along the Atlantic seaboard probably ever attract a larger number of coreligionists than followed Brigham Young and his colleagues from the banks of the Mississippi to the shores of Great Salt Lake. (Young had been elected president of the church following the death of its founder, Joseph Smith, on June 27, 1844.)