Industrial Age · North America · Religion
1847
Brigham Young Reaches Salt Lake
July 24, 1847
After a seventeen-hundred-mile walk from Nauvoo, the Mormon pioneers reached the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Young, sick in a wagon, is said to have declared "This is the right place." Within twenty years they had irrigated a desert, founded a hundred settlements, and built a theocracy that still defines Utah.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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