Live on it!
Just how you would cross any other land!
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Both the Mormons and the Puritains travelled to a new land in search of religious freedom.
Mexico never gave the Mormons a huge land mass. The land mass was aquired by the United States government as part of the Mexican-American war. It just so happened the Mormons lived there.
yes because they were looking for food to and land
Mormons travelled the Mormon trail to Utah in wagon trains from 1845 to 1869. In 1869 the transcontinental railroad was completed and many Mormons going to Utah began taking the train.
Hard labour and a communitarian system of irrigation.
The US victory in the Mexican-American war meant that the land (now Utah) that was occupied by the Mormons was now a part of the United States.
Miners for gold ranchers farmers for land mormons for religous freedom
Hand carts (with all of their belongings) were pulled across the west in the mid 1880's by mormons heading for utah and the promise land. I have always wondered if the phrase "Going to hell in a hand cart" Was related to this historic event. Anyone have other thoughts on this.
Indians, cold weather, mountains, lack of food, illness, ect.
Of the 13,824,854 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) worldwide, 7,785,947 live outside the United States. That is, 56% of all baptised Mormons live outside the U.S. Nations with quite a few Mormons are: Canada 179,801 Mormons (1% of Mormons are Canadian, 0.5% of Canadians are Mormon) Samoa 69,224 Mormons (0.5% of Mormons, 39% of Samoans) Tonga 55,173 Mormons (0.5% of Mormons, 53% of Tongans) Mexico 1,197,573 Mormons (8.7% of Mormons, 1% of Mexicans) Guatemala 220,296 Mormons (1.6% of Mormons, 1.6% of Guatemalans) El Salvador 105,501 Mormons (0.8% of Mormons, 2% of El Salvadorians) Hondouras 136,408 Mormons (1% of Mormons, 2% of Hondourans) Brazil 1,102,674 Mormons (8% of Mormons, 0.6% of Brazilians) Chile 561,920 Mormons (4% of Mormons, 3.3% of Chileans) Peru 480,816 Mormons (3.5% of Mormons, 1.7% of Peruvians) Philippines 631,885 Mormons (4.6% of Mormons, 0.7% of all Philippinos) UK 186,082 Mormons (1.3% of Mormons, 0.3% of all UK) Australia 126,767 Mormons (0.9% of Mormons, 0.6% of Australians) New Zealand 100,962 Mormons (0.7% of Mormons, 2.4% of all New Zealanders) To compare, the United States has 6,038,907 Mormons. That's 44% of Mormons and 2% of all Americans. But you can find Mormons in nearly every nation of the World! The "Related Link" below has a great population statistics map related to Mormon Church membership.