2,500 Mormons created a settlement called “Cutler’s Park” in August 1846 in what is now Omaha. The settlement is considered Nebraska’s first town. The settlers got permission from a U.S. Indian Agent ...

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For many early Utah pioneers, James Brown Jr. was a hero of sorts. He led a Mormon Battalion company into the Salt Lake Valley just days after Brigham Young. He and his family settled Ogden, which ...

July 24th is Utah’s unique holiday. It commemorates the arrival of religious pioneers fleeing persecution in the Midwest. For many in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their arrival ...