The Mormons were able to settle successfuly at the Great Salt Lake due to their faith, strength, steadfast determination to settle together in a place where they would not be persecuted for their religious beliefs and where the lord wanted them to be.
The Mormons were given information concerning the Salt Lake valley from Father Pierre DeSmet, a Belgian Catholic Missionary who traveled the west before the Mormons were ever even there. Through his description of the area the Mormons decided to move there.
Good old fashioned hard-work, help from the Native Americans, and blessings from God
The Mormons went from Palmyra, NY to Kirtland, OH to Navoo, IL to Salt Lake City, UT
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The majority of Mormons moved to Utah in 1847 after being kicked out of Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.
The Mormons were a religious group founded by Joseph Smith. They moved west because other religions were prosecuting them and they needed a new place where they wouldn't be bothered. They first went to Salt Lake. That is where Brigham Young said "This is the place."
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The first Mormons arrived to settle in the Great Salt Lake on July 24, 1847.
The Great Salt Lake.
Brigham Young was the leader who led Mormons on a trek to Salt Lake.
There is no Great Salt River. I believe you mean the Great Salt Lake. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that Brigham Young lead them to the Great Salt Lake by revelation from Jesus Christ.
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Yes. Brigham Young lead most of the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake after Joseph Smith was murdered.
In short, the purpose of emmigrating was to find a safe place to practice their religion. The Latter-day Saints (Mormons) were subject to a great deal of persecution, and even mob attacks and murders, wherever they settled -- initially in New York, then Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. The governor of Missouri even issued an extermination order authorizing the murder of Mormons in the state. After the murder of their prophet and president in 1844, the Mormons emigrated along the Mormon Trail to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, which was mostly uninhabited by anyone, and began to settle the territory there.
Brigham Young was the leader of the Church at the head of the first group of Mormon pioneers. Later groups were lead by various trail guides.
Early Mormons began a settlement called Voree (in what is now the city of Burlington) in Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan. This group eventually became cut off from the main body of the Church (largely because of their distance from Church headquarters) and has now become a separate Church. Ironically, they share the official name of the Church, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", but are not connected with the 13 million member Church based in Salt Lake City. Members of this group are often called "Strangite Mormons". Or, perhaps you are meaning the other great lake... the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, that the main body of Mormons settled, and are currently based, near. (You can learn more about the Strangite and the mainstream Mormon Church from the "Related Links" below.)
The Great Basin area, near the Great Salt Lake. What is now Salt Lake City, Utah.
They didn't really make a settlement on the Great Salt Lake, as there is swampy marshland surrounding the lake for several miles. The first city they settled in the area was Great Salt Lake City, later renamed Salt Lake City, which is about 20 miles from the nearest shore of the Great Salt Lake.Salt Lake City and other Mormon settlements in the area were a part of a territory the Mormons named Deseret.
The Saints arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake on 24 July 1847.