Identifier: explorationsurve002stan (find matches)
Title: Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stansbury, Howard Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 Birard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 Torrey, John, 1796-1873 Hall, James, 1811-1898 United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: Washington : Robert Armstrong, Public Printer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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red in the jail ofCarthage. During the year 1845, these persecutions continued; andthreats of greater outrages being held out, the Mormons found theirsituation no longer tolerable within the boundaries of that State,and at length, in a solemn council, determined to abandon theirhomes in their city of Nauvoo, and to seek, in the wilds of theWestern wilderness, a spot remote from the habitations of men,where, secure from lawless violence, they might worship accordingto the*ntes of the new religion they had introduced. Into the particular causes which led to the expulsion of the Mor-mons from Missouri and Illinois it is not the province of this reportto inquire. The facts have long been before the country, and itsjudgment has been passed upon them; but the results of the per-secutions to which they were subjected have been as curious asthey were wholly unlooked for. The Mormons having resolved to emigrate, preparations forthe journey were immediately commenced, by hastily and at much ^^i
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EXODUS FROM ILLINOIS. 125 § sacrifice exchanging such property as they could dispose of foranimals, wagons, and breadstuffs; and in the beginning of Feb-ruary, 1846, a large proportion of the community crossed theMississippi from Nauvoo, and formed a rendezvous near Montrose,in Iowa. Here they remained, exposed to intense cold and deepsnows, until March, when, being joined by several hundred wagonsand a large number of women and children, they organized theircompany under the guidance of Brigham Young^ President of thechurch,- and successor of Joseph Smith, their foimder and seer. In their progress westward, through the northern part of Mis-souri, they were again driven from that State by violent threats,into the southern borders of Iowa, whence, after much hardship andsuffering, they reached, in the course of the summer, the banks ofthe Missouri, beyond the limits of the States. Here they enclosedland and planted crops, leaving some of their number to reap thefruits, which were to b

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