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THE MORMON PIONEER TRAIL
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"THE MORMON PIONEER TRAIL
An Emigrant Train from the top of Big
Mountain entering the valley of the Great Salt Lake
(Courtesy: Utah Division of Parks and Recreation)
THE ROUTE WEST
To the sounds of snapping harness and creaking wagon wheels the pioneers in the vanguard of
westward expansion moved out across the North American continent. Between 1840 and 1870, more
than 500,000 emigrants went west along the Great Platte River Road from department points along
the Missouri River. This corridor had been used for thousands of years by American Indians and
in the mid-19th Century became the transportation route for successive waves of European
trappers, missionaries, soldiers, teamsters, stage coach drivers, Pony Express riders, and
overland emigrants bound to opportunity in the Oregon territory, the Great Basin, and the
California gold fields.
The trunk of the corridor generally followed the Platte and North Platte rivers for more than
600 miles, then paralleled the Sweetwater River before crossing the Continental Divide at South
Pass. Beyond South Pass the route divided several times, each branch pioneered by emigrants
seeking a better way to various destinations. The route's importance declined with the
completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 but continued to receive limited use into
the early 1900s.
An Exodus
THE MORMON PIONEER TRAIL
Few years in the Far West were more notable than 1846. That year saw a war start with Mexico,
the Donner-Reed party embark on their infamous journey into a frozen world of indescribable
horror, and the beginning of the best organized mass migration in American history. The
participants of this migration, the Mormons, would establish thriving communities in what was
considered by many to be a worthless desert.
From 1846 to 1869, more than 70,000 Mormons traveled along an integral part of the road west,
the Mormon Pioneer Trail. The trail started in Nauvoo"
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