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Mormon Trail: Winter Quarters, Clayton's Roadometer and Handcart Disaster

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Between 1846 and 1869 about 14,000 Latter-day Saints traveled the Mormon Trail. After Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs's Executive Order 44 called for their extermination or removal and Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844, Brigham Young led the church out of Nauvoo, Illinois, a city rivaling Chicago in size, crossing the frozen Mississippi in February 1846. Spring rains turned Iowa to axle-deep mud, stretching a four to six week crossing to 16 weeks. At Winter Quarters on the Missouri River they built about 700 cabins and dugouts, and 359 people died there of scurvy, tuberculosis and other disease.

In 1847 a Vanguard Company of 143 men, three women, two children and 73 wagons cut a route north of the Platte River toward the Great Basin, which Young chose after consulting Jim Bridger and Pierre-Jean De Smet because no one else wanted it. Settlers ahead planted crops at Garden Grove and Mount Pisgah for those behind. The Perpetual Emigrating Fund paid passage for poor converts, and from 1856 to 1860 nearly 3,000 pulled handcarts. In 1856 the late Willie and Martin companies were caught by October blizzards in Wyoming, and over 210 of about 980 died.

William Clayton first counted 360 wheel turns per mile by hand before a wooden gear roadometer took over.
Clayton's measurements became the Latter-day Saints' Emigrants' Guide, used by later pioneers and gold seekers.
Brigham Young, ill with mountain fever in a wagon, looked over the valley in July 1847 and said this is the right place.
Baked soil snapped plowshares until settlers dammed City Creek and flooded the ground.
They chose Mexican territory for isolation, but the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made it American again.

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