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Title
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Crossing the Great Plains: A Sesquicentennial Look at the 1847 Mormon Pioneer Trek West
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Description
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Article "analyz[ing] the motives forcing the Mormons to venture west [from 1847 to 1897], observ[ing] several unique features that made the Mormon Trail experience different from that of other overland travelers, and examin[ing] how that experience has been memorialized," with photos and map.
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Mormon Trail
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Description
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Pictographic map showing route of trail. Includes historical sketches.
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Date
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1947
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Handcarts and Heartaches
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Description
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Article describes difficulties of Mormon pioneers emigrating from Iowa to Salt Lake City in 1855-1856 along the Mormon Trail.
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Date
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2004-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Mormon Trail - Forging a Road West
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Description
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Brief article detailing the history of the early wagon trains that traveled the Mormon Trail and some of the landmarks along the way. The first to travel this trail on recommendation by Lansford Hastings, were the families of George and Jacob Donner and James Reed.
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Date
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2010
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Overland from Missouri to Washington Territory in 1854
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Description
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Article recounts the journey of the Jacob Ebey family of Plum Grove Place, Adair County, Missouri, to Whidbey Island, Washington Territory, in 1854 (based on the diary Winfield Scott Ebey kept during the trip). The party included fourteen: Jacob Ebey, his wife Sarah Ebey, his grown children Winfield Scott Ebey, Ruth Ebey, and Mary Wright and her two children, and friends Jack Lesley (with family), George Beam, and James J. Wood. Leaving April 27, they traveled on the Mormon Trace to Council Bluffs, then on the Mormon Trail. Includes discussion of the customs of such overland journies (organizing companies, methods of security, burial, daily routines, etc.). Includes a map of the route.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Mormon Trail
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Description
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This is the first publication of "the official chronicle of the journey, Thomas Bullock's Journal of the Travels of the Pioneer Camp of the Saints, from Winter Quarters, in search of a location for a Stake of Zion." Bullock was a scribe who served as clerk and personal secretary to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Along with the entries from Bullock's journal that covers between September 1846 to October 1847, the book includes the following: "Thomas Bullock: A Life Sketch; A Galaxy of Mormon Pioneers: Biographical Sketches; and several appendices.''
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Date
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1905-06-23
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Object Type
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Book
