The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-10-29
Romantic story OF Utah.

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Romantic story Of Utah.
The migration of the first Mormons
across the broad, unknown waste that
lay between the Missouri river and
the valley of the Great Salt Lake was
an undertaking Of extraordinary dar'
ing, an expedition second perhaps In
its interest in American history only
to the coming of the pilgrim fathers.
Just as the pilgrims launched their
ships upon a terrible and unknown
sea. these first pioneers OF the West
yentured into vast, strange land
about which they knew little aside
from the knowledge OF the constant
presence Of hundred perils.
The people OF Utah were the first to
establish themselves in the West. Ore
gon In 1s47 was disputed ground.
California belonged to Mexico. and the
"forty.niners," the first American pio-
neers Of that state, did not traverse
the prairie. until two years later, and
after Utah was settlement with sew.
eral thousand people. So that Utah
was then the very broadland. 1t was
there that the West took root.
The leaders Of the Mormons had de-
cided upon the far distant West as the
future home of their people. They had
no more definite plan than that. They
had read Of the valley Of the Great
Salt lake In the reports OF General
John c. Fremont. the pathfinder"
who had seen the region In 1S43. They
had heard, too, OF Oregon; and they
had considered Vancouver island. But
not until the expedition was well on
its way was the exact destination de-
finitely determined. There were three
main bodies of emigrants who moved
from the camp at winter quarters on
the Missouri river to the valley be-
yond the Rockies The first party num-
bered lat, including three women and
two children, and made its journey In
the spring Of 1S47 with Brigham
Young at It's head. Then followed In
the summer of the same year the
second body Of the pioneers, nearly
1000 in all. among them many OF the
women and children of these first
pilgrims of the prairie. under the d.
rection of John Young. brother OF
the chief. Then Brigham Young re-
turned to the Missouri and the follow
ing year guided to the new land all
. the remainder of his people. about
$500 OF them.-Leslie's Weekly.
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