USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They had embarked on a treacherous thousand-mile journey, looking for a new place to settle the “Promised Land.” On July 24, 1847, an exhausted Brigham Young and his fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrived in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Valley and called it home.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Salt Lake County, those LDS enclaves tend to be in the southwestern portions of the county-places such as South Jordan, West Jordan and Herriman-though the stronger enclaves are in cities like American Fork, Alpine and Provo.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Mormon pioneers viewed their arrival as the founding of a Mormon homeland, hence Pioneer Day. The Mormons, as they were commonly known, left their settlement in Nauvoo, Illinois, and journeyed West seeking refuge from religious persecution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bountiful, Farmington, Ogden, Tooele, Provo, and Manti were settled by 1850. Immigration had swelled the population to 11, 380, half of whom were farm families. The typical family of 1850 consisted of two parents in their 20s or early 30s and three children.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mormon Trail, in U.S. history, the route taken by Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake in what would become the state of Utah.