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Pioneer Story: The Mormon Pioneer Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has everything you need to know about the Mormon Pioneer Trail. Read about the stops along the 1,300-mile trail from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake Valley and get personal accounts of what happened to the Mormons on...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Mormon Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
The Utah portion of the Old Mormon Trail remains the best-known and most famous section of the several emigrant trails used by the Mormons in their migrations during the 19th century.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Utah: Emigration Canyon

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mormon pioneers traversed the Wasatch Range through this canyon at the western end of their trail, beginning in 1847. The canyon mouth is the location of Brigham Young's famous quotation "This is the place.".
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Heritage Gateways: Food

For Students 9th - 10th
Click through eighteen pages of information about food and cooking as it was experienced by people traveling by wagon train to Utah, and as they began to settle into homesteads and communities. This site began as part of the 1997...