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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 17, 2015
Caption: The Road to Zion Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top, right) Many Mormon emigrants wrote diaries to describe their experiences. Appleton Harmon wrote his journal in 1847.; (central illustration) After arriving, the Mormon pioneers set up communities and ferry crossings along the trail to assist later wagon trains going to and from Utah.; (bottom, right) From 1856-60, many European converts walked more than 1,200 miles to Salt Lake City pushing and pulling handcarts loaded with 500 pounds of supplies. After 1860, the Mormon church sponsored oxen-drawn wagons to bring emigrants to the “New Zion.”; (Map of the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail on the bottom, left.)
Submitted: December 19, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p342403
File Size: 3.479 Megabytes

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