Today's installment concludes The Mormons Migrate West,our selection from The Mormons: A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of
Mormon Stragglers Behind Their Main Wagon Train
Though the season was late, when they first crossed the Missouri, some of them moved forward with great hopefulness.Continuing The Mormons Migrate
Hard Winter of the Mormons’ Trip
The hardships and trials which they had suffered developed a spirit of self-sacrifice among these indomitable people.Continuing The Mormons Migrate
Sufferings of the Mormons
These were the Mormons, famishing, in Lee County, Iowa, in the fourth week of the month of September, 1846.Continuing The Mormons Migrate West,our
The Mormons Migrate West
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Kane's Travels.IntroductionAmong the numerous religious bodies that
The Transcontinental Railroad’s Last Spike
Today's installment concludes First North American Transcontinental Railroad Completed,our selection from The Union Pacific Railway by John P. Davis
The Two Railroads Race to the Meeting Point
Central Pacific had graded eighty miles to the east that it never would cover and the Union Pacific had wasted a million dollars on grading west of
Life in the Construction Camps
The regular routine of business, dances, drunks, and fist fights met with a sudden interruption.Continuing First North American Transcontinental
Laying Down the Track
The only settlements between Omaha and Sacramento in 1862 were those of the Mormons in Utah, and Denver and a few mining-camps in Colorado and