USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mormons settled in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847–a neutral or buffer zone between the Shoshone and Ute peoples. Conflict between Mormons and Indians did not really begin until Mormons extended their settlements south into Utah Valley–a major trade crossroads and subsistence area for the Ute people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Young, and 148 Mormons, crossed into the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. For the next two decades, wagon trains bearing thousands of Mormon immigrants followed Young’s westward trail. By 1896, when Utah was granted statehood, the church had more than 250, 000 members, most living in Utah.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter Day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.