What was the Purpose of Mormon trail?

The Mormon trail is the trail the Mormon pioneers took to have a better life.

The Mormon trail was the route taken by the Mormon pioneers in their exodus to find religious freedom. The traveled from the east and Midwest of the United States where they faced severe persecution until they found safety and freedom in the west.

Some groups started in Illinois, some in Iowa City and others started in St. Louis.

The Mormon Trail began in 1847.

The Mormon Trail was used from 1846 to 1869. Toilet paper was not invented as a commodity until 1857. It is unlikely Mormon settlers carried items like this with them, instead using leaves, cloth, corn cobs, or such other materials as were in common use for this purpose at that time.

Mormon Trail was created on 1978-11-10.

The Mormon Trail started in February 1846.

The church members were moving to the Salt Lake Valley to escape from persecution in Illinois and Missouri.

The Mormon Trail was the route, but it did travel on the Oregon trial too. :)

Salt Lake City, Utah is considered the end of the Mormon trail.

The Mormon Trail was in operation from 1846 to 1869, when the transcontinental railroad was completed.

The Mormon Trail was traveled by Mormon Pioneers from Illinois to Utah after they had been kicked out of Illinois. It was then traveled by Mormon converts from Europe and Canada as they immigrated to "Zion" (the Mormon settlements in Utah). The trail was mostly discontinued after the railroad reached Salt Lake City.

The Mormon trail and the organ trail

The Mormon Trail.

The Mormon trail.

Because it was the trail that lead to Salt Lake City. The Oregon trail went to Oregon, the California trail went to California, and the Mormon Trail went to Utah.

the Mormon trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah

Most of the travelers on the Mormon Trail were Mormon converts from the eastern United States and Europe.

The Mormon Pioneer trail lead from Missouri to Salt Lake City, Utah. It closely followed the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush trail.

The Mormon trail was used between 1845 and 1869, when the transcontinental railroad was completed and therefore the trail was no longer needed.

Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail & California Trail.

Approximately 70,000 Mormon Pioneers traveled the Mormon Trail between 1845 and 1869.

The Mormon Trail stopped being used shortly after the railroad reached Utah in 1869.

The Mormon Trail - 1920 was released on: USA: November 1920

Most pioneers set off on the Mormon trail from either Illinois or Missouri.

It was the emigrant trail that began at the Missouri River and took the settelers to what is now California. The eastern half of it overlapped the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail. It was also the favored route used by the 49ers in the Gold Rush and existed from 1845 to 1869 when the Transcontinental Railway was completed.

The Mormon pioneers traveled on the Mormon Trail to reach Utah, where they found the freedom to practice their religion in relative peace. Others used the Mormon trail as a route to various places in the west, many would continue on to California, Nevada, or Oregon.

Because the Mormon Pioneers traveled on it.

The Mormon Trail got it's name because it was used by tens of thousands of Mormon pioneers travelling west to find religious freedom.

Nobody. The Mormon Pioneers traveled on the Mormon Trail, not the Oregon Trail. In many places these trails closely followed each other, but they were not the same trail.

The Mormon Trail was approximately 1,300 miles long from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Mormon trail passes through the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.

The first group of Mormon pioneers started on the trail in the winter of 1845-46, but groups continued to use the trail until the railroad came in 1869.

Most Mormons followed the Mormon Trail, which was roughly the same as the Oregon trail until the Mormon trail split off to Utah in Wyoming. Some Mormon pioneers took a boat around South America, docked in California, and travelled to Utah through Nevada.

the Mormon trail

They don't meet.

They followed the Orgen Trail

Mormon Trail

The trails were the Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Old Spanish Trail, the California Trail, and Mormon Trail.

orgen trail, santa fe trail, old spanish trail, Mormon trail, & California trail

The Mormon Trail began in the winter of 1845-46.

Brigham Young lead the first group of Mormon pioneers along the Mormon Trail to Utah in 1846-47. Subsequent groups came over the next 25 years lead by various experienced trail guides. The Mormon Trail followed a similar route to the Oregon Trail until Wyoming, when it went south to Utah rather than north to Oregon.

The Mormon Trail was approximately 1,300 miles long from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Various groups crossing the Mormon trail left from different places. Most left from Missouri or Illinois.

The Oregon Trail. Santa Fe Trail, Mormon Pioneer Trail, California Trail

The California Trail, Gila Trail, Mormon Trail and The Old Spanish Trail....

It was a difficult trek, and many died along the trail.

The Oregon Trail and The Mormon Trail .

Obviously it's because the Mormons traveled the trail.