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.

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.

This art book accompanies an art exhibition of the same name at the Church History Museum, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. The book features dozens of paintings by three Mormon painters, John Burton, Josh Clare, and Bryan Mark Taylor, who traveled and painted the Mormon Trail landscape. Each painting is paired with pioneer journal entries. The book gives written and visual context to the pioneers' experience of the trail, bears witness to the land as it exists today, and links the historic experience of pioneers to the challenges of today.

"Between the mid 1840s and late 1860s, around 5,000 Welsh people, inspired by the Mormon faith, ventured to start a new life in the United States...seeking their holy city in the West..."--back cover.

Beginning with their expulsion from Nauvoo in 1846 and for the succeeding twenty-two years, the migration of Mormon pioneerssome 70,000 of themwas a compelling saga of the settlement of the American West. Mostly poor, they traveled on ships, canal

Was in most ways similar to that of other emigrants, the religious motivations, tight organization, and family groups of the Mormons gave their migration a distinct character. William Hill introduces the Mormons, their eventful early history, and the characteristics of the migration west. His book also includes a chronology of trail-related events, excerpts from diaries and guidebooks, songs, historical maps, over 200 then and now illustrations, descriptions of major.