SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — With Days of ’47, one of Utah’s biggest Pioneer Day celebrations, around the corner, many may wonder what it means to Utahns, and the state’s history. Much of it, due in part ...
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a standard crossing-the-Plains narrative: Pioneers traversed the Mississippi River on the ice led by Brigham Young. Everything was well ...
2,500 Mormons created a settlement called “Cutler’s Park” in August 1846 in what is now Omaha. The settlement is considered Nebraska’s first town. The settlers got permission from a U.S. Indian Agent ...