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Mormon Pioneer: Across Iowa in 1846

Publication: National Park Service Website Author: National Park Service Date of Publication: 2023 PDF File: Mormon-Pioneer-NHT-Historic-Resource-Study-Chapt.pdf URL: http://npshistory.com/publications/mopi/hrs/chap3.htm

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The Iowa portion of the trail was used relatively little, mainly by the Mormons fleeing Illinois in 1846, and by some other Mormons jumping off from Keokuk, Iowa, in 1853. It was also used in 1856-1857 by seven companies of Mormon Handcarters from Iowa City who intersected the 1846 Mormon Trail at what is now Lewis, Cass County.

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Mormon Trek/Coralville Strip Nature Trail Description

Passing over the same ground that Mormon pioneers once crossed on their way out west, the Mormon Trek/Coralville Strip Nature Trail provides a welcome dose of historical reflection and natural beauty along its relatively short route. The paved trail runs through a scenic, tree-lined corridor behind the series of athletic fields that marks the western edge of the campus of the University of Iowa, giving students and visitors a way to disappear into the outdoors without having to look far afield. The trail is a popular spot among the local bird-watching community, hosting a number of species including hawks and woodpeckers. For those looking for a longer walk or ride, connections are available via sidewalks from the western end of the trail to the Clear Creek Trail , an integral part of the area's network of multi-use trails. The Lower Finkbine Trail also intersects the nature trail on the eastern end, which acts as an important commuting and transportation link for neighborhoods to the south of campus.

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Parking is available at the softball complex lot at the western end of the trail, located off of 1st Avenue. Parking is also available at the eastern end of the trail on the university campus, with several lots located off of Hawkins Drive—campus shuttle stops at the Carver Hawkeye Arena and the Finkbine Entrance also provide convenient access to the trail. Visit the  TrailLink map  for all options and detailed directions.

City buses and campus shuttles both offer stops near the trail. Refer to the  Iowa City Transit webpage  for more information.

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Surachman Dimyati

I remember back when I was in 6th grade, me, my mom, and my brother would come here every Friday after school to walk along the trails and experience all the beautiful sunsets we did. Amazing memories!

Nice hiking strip.... The only down side is that you might have to cross a major road to continue. Not the best really and nothing really too exciting. It is also really hard to follow. I only used it couple of times cos it was the closest to me. Not my favorite

Chukwuebuka Ogwo

We needed a place that wasn't muddy or near the river or creeks. This was really nice and went as far as we could walk.

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I have never been here, I just wanted to say hello to everyone else who typed in these coordinates because they were playing "Wrenlaw".

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Distance: 265 miles from nauvoo.

Council Bluffs was a major outfitting point for Latter-day Saints and countless others heading west during most of the overland emigration period. Located across the Missouri River from Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs was one of the most significant Latter-day Saint settlements during the late 1840s and early 1850s.

The Latter-day Saints named this outfitting point—originally known as Miller’s Hollow—Kanesville in honor of Thomas L. Kane, an influential ally during their darkest years in Nauvoo. In 1853, following the departure of the Saints, it was renamed Council Bluffs. Orson Hyde, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the leading ecclesiastical leader for the area, ran a newspaper in the community, the Frontier Guardian, which became an important source of information for thousands of people on the move to the West. As many as 90 Latter-day Saint settlements were scattered throughout Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and Kanesville was the most significant of these.

Here was a major outfitting point for Latter-day Saints and countless others heading west during most of the overland emigration period. Across the Missouri River from Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs was one of the most significant Latter-day Saint settlements during the late 1840s and early 1850s.

The Latter-day Saints named this outfitting point—originally known as Miller's Hollow—Kanesville in honor of Thomas L. Kane, an influential ally during their darkest years in Nauvoo. Following the departure of the Saints, it was renamed Council Bluffs in 1853. Orson Hyde, Church Apostle and the leading ecclesiastical leader for the area, ran a newspaper in the community, the Frontier Guardian, that became an important source of information for thousands on the move to the West. Up to 90 Latter-day Saint settlements were scattered throughout Pottawattamie County, Iowa, of which Kanesville was the most significant.

It was from this location that the members Mormon Battalion began their long march to San Diego in July 1846.

Mormon Battalion

Both military and historical consensus, says that never in American history has there been an equivalent march of infantry: 600 men, women, and children, recruited by the U.S. Army from a mass exodus of Latter-day Saints then struggling across the plains of Iowa fleeing religious persecution in Illinois. They never engaged in armed conflict, yet they played a key role in securing from Mexico much of the present American Southwest in their 2,000-mile march across half a continent.

Need for a Mormon Battalion

Encamped on the prairies of Iowa in June of 1846, the Latter-day Saints were met with an unlikely visitor with an unusual request. Captain James Allen of the U.S. Regular Army rode into the makeshift refugee camp at Mount Pisgah seeking 500 volunteers for the six-week-old war with Mexico. The volunteers would be paid standard fare for their services. At the time, the Latter-day Saints were fleeing U.S. ambivalence and disdain—for the refuge of the Mexican Territory, and Allen's approach was at first perceived as absolute affrontery. Yet Brigham Young, who had long sought redress from the federal government for losses sustained by his people while under its jurisdiction, saw in the action the hand of Providence.

Within a matter of months, and due in part to the efforts of the Battalion, the distant Salt Lake Valley would switch from Mexican to United States control. And through military pay, the Latter-day Saints would have additional financial means to launch and sustain their new community.

Financial Benefits of the Battalion

The Mormon Battalion, though it extracted 500 able men from the body of struggling Saints, was a boon to the pioneers financially. Battalion members each received a $42 clothing allowance, paid in advance, for their one-year enlistment. The bulk of this money was contributed immediately to a general Church fund from which wagons, teams, and other necessities for the larger exodus were purchased. Actual wages paid out over the next year (collected frequently by Church messengers) came to nearly $30,000. Later, Battalion members returning from California, where they were instrumental in the initial discovery of gold at John Sutter's mill, contributed $17,000 in gold to the fledgling economy of the Great Basin settlement.

Accomplishments of the Battalion

Battalion members cleared the first wagon road across the southern desert to California; secured the presidio at San Diego; established a U.S. presence in Tucson, leading to the acquisition seven years later of the Gadsden Purchase (in extreme southern New Mexico and Arizona); and contributed to the building of Fort Moore (in Los Angeles). Individuals in the Battalion later helped in the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill and the blazing of a wagon road over Cajon Pass and of the route east from California to Salt Lake City.

Battle of the Bulls

Although Battalion troops effectively stared down and intimidated the Mexican garrison stationed at Tucson resulting in the garrison's retreat, their only armed engagement of the war was with a herd of cattle. On 11 December 1846, a number of wild cattle stampeded into the rear companies, jostling wagons and scaring the pack animals, whereupon a number of the Battalion's hunters opened fire on the beasts. The eventual toll from the skirmish, immortalized as the Battle of the Bulls, was "ten to fifteen bulls killed, two mules gored to death, three men wounded."

For Those Who Would Follow

While only 2,000 people crossed to the Salt Lake Valley that first year of the migration, thousands remained on farms set up in Iowa territory to plant crops, harvest, and prepare provisions for the coming migration. One entire village (Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, Iowa) was established with such "travelers' aid" a primary concern. In contrast to most other pioneer groups crossing the plains, the Latter-day Saints cleared roads, built sturdy bridges, erected way-houses and built and manned river ferries at numerous points along the trail.

Women and Children on the Trail

The Mormon Battalion's 500 soldiers were divided into five companies. Each company was assigned at least four laundresses—wives of Battalion members also on the payroll—and other aides. All told, 34 women and 51 children accompanied the Battalion when it left Fort Leavenworth. Most of these were relegated to the winter camp at Fort Pueblo, but four women and perhaps six children completed the grueling 2,000-mile march to the Pacific coast. All but one, who died following childbirth in San Diego, then completed the journey to Salt Lake City.

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When Captain James Allen of the U.S. Army rode into the makeshift refugee camp at Mount Pisgah (near present-day Thayer, Iowa) on June 26, 1846, he was met with something less than enthusiasm. Perhaps 15,000 men, women, and children, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were filtering through this encampment, driven from their homes and farms in or around Nauvoo, Illinois, by a citizenry that had turned vicious and a government—right to the top—that had turned the other way.

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Abner blackburn.

“Arrived at Council Bluffs. Here Coronel Allen, a goverment officer, was enlisting volunteers for the Mexican War. Brighams folks did not want me to enlist for I had been with them as chief cook and bottle washer, or as a necessary evil. . . . I told them I was going and all the kings oxen could not hold me. There was five hundred enlisted in this place. [They were] called [the] Mormon Battalion and started to Ft Leavenworth to fit out for the war.”

Frontiersman: Abner Blackburn’s Narrative , ed. Will Bagley (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,1992), 39.

William Hyde

“The Government of the United States were at this time at war with Mexico, and not being satisfied with either having assisted, or by their silence acquiesced in driving and plundering thousands of defenseless men, women and children, and driving them from their pleasant and lawful homes, and of actually murdering, or through suffering causing the death of hundreds, they must now send to our camps, (While we, like Abraham, by the commandment of Heaven were enroute for a home, we knew not where; and after having expelled us from their borders), and call upon us for five hundred young and middle aged men, the strength of our camp, to go and assist them in fighting their battles.”

"The Government of the United States were at this time at war with Mexico, and not being satisfied with either having assisted, or by their silence acquiesced in driving and plundering thousands of defenseless men, women and children, and driving them from their pleasant and lawful homes, and of actually murdering, or through suffering causing the death of hundreds, they must now send to our camps, (While we, like Abraham, by the commandment of Heaven were enroute for a home, we knew not where; and after having expelled us from their borders), and call upon us for five hundred young and middle aged men, the strength of our camp, to go and assist them in fighting their battles.

When this news came I looked upon my family, and then upon my aged parents, and upon the situation of the camps in the midst of an uncultivated, wild Indian country, and my soul revolted. But when I came to learn the mind of the Lord, and on learning the offering had to be made, or the sequel was not yet opened between us and the Government; when our beloved President came to call upon the saints to know who among all the people were ready to offer for the cause; I said, 'Here am I, take me'" ("The Private Journal of William Hyde," Family and Church History Department Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 18).

“This was quite a hard pill to swallow—to leave wives and children on the wild prairie, destitute and almost helpless, having nothing to rely on only the kindness of neighbors, and go to fight the battles of a government that had allowed some of its citizens to drive us from our homes, but the word came from the right source and seemed to bring the spirit of conviction of its truth with it and there was quite a number of our company volunteered, myself and brother among them.”

“Reminiscences of Zadok Knapp Judd,” 1902, 17, Church History Library, Salt Lake City.

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Iowa City, Iowa was the outfitting location for Latter-day Saints heading west between 1856 and 1857, the peak time of the handcart experiment. From Iowa City, several handcart and wagon companies left from Iowa City between 1856-57. 1

An epistle from the First Presidency to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints instructing the Saints to “gather up for Zion, and come while the way is open before them; let the poor also come….let them come on foot, with handcarts or wheelbarrows; let them gird up their loins and walk through, and nothing shall hinder or stay them.

In regard to the foreign emigration another year, let them pursue the northern route from Boston, New York or Philadelphia, and land at Iowa City or the then terminus of the railroad; there let them be provided with handcarts on which to drag their provisions and clothing; then walk and draw them, thereby saving the immense expense every year for teams and outfit for crossing the plains.” 2

Many converts, who up to this point were unable to obtain sufficient means to emigrate, traveled from Liverpool to the United States at this time. After arriving in America, they then traveled to Iowa City, where they built handcarts, and walked the remainder of the way to Utah. The well-known Willie and Martin handcart companies began their journey from Iowa City. In total, nearly 3,000 individuals traveled to Utah with handcarts in ten companies during the years 1856-60.

Presently, on the border of Coralville and Iowa City, Iowa, there is a beautiful site where flora and fauna remained preserved in their natural state. This site is a cooperative effort between the University of Iowa and the LDS Church in which historical interpretation of the handcart outfitting stations is provided. Accordingly, in addition to lush vegetation and wildlife, interpretive markers keep the story of the handcart Saints alive to all who stroll or jog on the paths of this beautiful site. This can be seen in the images above and below.

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Directions:  Coming from the north, take I-80 in Iowa to exit 242 to Coralville and Iowa City. Go south on 1st Avenue which is also Hayden Fry Way. Continue south through stoplights at 5th Street and 2nd Street. This road now becomes Mormon Trek Blvd. Continue south through several curves to a stoplight at Hawkeye Park Road. Turn right (west) here and then take an immediate first right turn and drive about a block to the park parking lot. From the south, take highway 218 from Nauvoo and Forth Madison to exit 91 to highway 1. Turn right (east) and then take the first left on Mormon Trek Blvd. continue north about a mile or so to Hawkeye Park Road. Turn left, then the immediate right to the Handcart Park parking lot.

Articles & Resources

William G. Hartley, “Mormons and Early Iowa History (1838-1858): Eight Distinct Connections,” Annals of Iowa , Summer 2000, Vol. 59, 217-260.

Edmund Ellsworth,  A Brief Record of the First Handcart Company ,  Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine , October 1926-April 1927, Vol. 17-18.

LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen,  Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860 , Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1960.

Frederick Hansen, The Great Handcart Train from Iowa City to Salt Lake City,  Journal of History , October 1916, Vol. 9.

1  Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History , eds. Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, & Richard O. Cowan, (Deseret Book Company: Salt Lake City, Utah: 2000), 549.

2  Andrew Jenson,  Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Co., 1941), 313.

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Understanding ADHD and Helping Your Child Thrive

How do you know if your child might have ADHD or if their behavior is typical, albeit a bit overly energetic? The answer is you don’t have to know. Parents and caregivers are not expected to know everything about their children.

Why is Getting Good Sleep So Hard?

When you are suffering from poor sleep hygiene, the impacts can be felt in every part of your life. It is much harder to manage emotions and think clearly when you are tired all the time.

Why do Women Struggle with Mental Health?

Don’t be afraid to ask for help! Whether it’s from a friend, family member, trusted colleague or a professional, people are out there to help.

Feeling Safe

I feel safe at CFS. I know the staff is professional and understanding and that my thoughts and feelings will be heard and are valid.

Building Strength

My treatment at CFS has helped me find the ability to continue on through a horrible time . The office staff always greets me with a smile, that’s great.

Embrace New Ideas

It’s great to have someone to talk through my thoughts and feelings with — to get things out into the universe and have a neutral party help me learn how to process, try new things, embrace different ideas.

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