The First Glimpse of the Salt Lake Valley by the Pioneers
Not all who
lead a race at the start, whether involving humans, animals, or machines, are
the first to finish. The crossing of the plains by the Saints was not a race,
and it would seem odd that the first family that left Nauvoo in February of
1846 would be the first family to enter the valley in July of 1847,
nonetheless, it almost happened.
Who was the
first family to leave Nauvoo?
a. Charles Shumway
b. Orson Pratt
c. Levi Hancock
d. Erastus Snow
Yesterday’s answers:
1. B.
California’s first Governor
In January
[1839], Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were taken to a hearing at the Clay
County courthouse a few doors away [from the Liberty Jail]. They were defended
by their attorney Alexander Doniphan, who had recently saved Joseph Smith’s
life at Far West, Caldwell County, and his legal assistant Peter Burnett, later
first governor of California.
Plewe,
Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo,
Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 34.
2.
A. Addison Pratt
He served in
the first foreign speaking mission to the Society Islands (Tahiti) in 1844 returning back to the United
States several years later after having baptized about 2,000 Polynesians.
Addison left
the United States in 1843 along with Benjamin F. Grouard, Noah Rogers, and
Knowlton F. Hanks (who died at sea) and returned to the States in 1848.
Plewe,
Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo,
Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 42.
3.
C. 1835
Plewe,
Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo,
Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 46.
4.
D. Anti-Mormon Party
Thomas
Sharp, Thomas Gregg, and William Roosevelt, organized the Anti-Mormon Party in
1841 as a political bloc, but in time they turned to violence to drive Joseph
Smith and the Mormons from the state.
Plewe,
Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo,
Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 62.
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