The White Mountain Expedition

What was the White Mountain Expedition at the time of Brigham Young?

A)                 The thought that the Church could relocate to the White Mountains of New Hampshire from Nauvoo

B)                 Re-locating the Church to the Panaca area of Nevada in wake of Johnston’s army in 1857

C)                 The moving of the Church from Salt Lake City to the east of Mt. Nebo [the White Mountain] during the Blackhawk War

D)                 The code name for the advance party on route to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847

Yesterday’s answer:

C) Denmark

The following from the journal of Jesse N. Smith (cousin of the Prophet Joseph Smith) while serving a mission in Denmark, dated October 8, 1861:

Bro. Johnson and I walked out to Jellings; saw in the old church yard a large block of granite covered with hieroglyphics or Kimic characters, some of which resembled characters in the Deseret alphabet.

This would make sense since many of the Saints in the valley came from Denmark.

Oliver R. Smith, ed., The Journal of Jesse Nathaniel Smith-1834-1906 (Provo: Jesse N. Smith Family Assn., 1970), 62.