The story of the Mormon Trail and the migration of Mormons to their new settlement at Salt Lake City.

From its beginning in 1846, this 22-year- long Mormon exodus from Illinois to the final promised landis one of the most extraordinary chapters in the history of the American West.

THE MORMON PIONEER TRAIL guide is provided for modern-day travelers who are making their own rediscovery of the Mormon Pioneer Trail and the wagon trains and handcart companies that journeyed along that trail. The guide is dedicated to the thousands who followed the pioneer trail west into the Valley of the Great Salt Lake and their Zion in the wilderness--and to those who were laid to rest along the way.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death—but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon Country, Recapitulation, Second Growth, and Women on the Wall.