* 1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

* July 24 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

Brigham Young, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wished to see the railroad support emigration and the population centers in Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.

Four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually become a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark.

Its county seat and largest city is Brigham City.

Box Elder County is part of the Brigham City Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City – Ogden – Clearfield Combined Statistical Area.

Interstate 15 runs through the eastern portion merged with Interstate 84 past Brigham City.

* Brigham City

* The film Brigham City was filmed in Mapleton.

Despite the name of the film, Richard Dutcher had Mapleton, not Brigham City, in mind in making the film.

* References to Snowflake are made in the 2001 murder mystery Brigham City, and the 2004 war film Saints and Soldiers.

To wit: Brigham City to Ogden ( 30 miles ) to Salt Lake City ( 30 miles ) to Provo ( 30 miles ), etc.

Bear River City was first settled by a group from Brigham City in 1866.

Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

Brigham City saw most of its growth during the 1950s and 1960s, but has seen a struggling economy and stagnating growth since then.

Brigham City is known for its peaches and holds an annual celebration called Peach Days on the weekend after Labor Day.

Mormon pioneer William Davis first explored the Brigham City area in 1850.

Brigham Young gave his last public sermon there in 1877 shortly before his death and the name of the town was changed to Brigham City after the church president.

In distinction with the LDS Church, Mormon fundamentalists also often believe in a number of other doctrines taught and practiced by Brigham Young in the 19th century, which the LDS Church has either abandoned, repudiated, or put in abeyance.

It also has two universities: Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University.

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ), part of Brigham Young University, has performed extensive archaeological research in this area, and publications on this subject and other historical topics are issued regularly by the FARMS organization.

He has honorary degrees from Glasgow University ( 1982 ), Calvin College ( 1986 ), North Park College ( 1994 ), the Free University of Amsterdam ( 1995 ), Brigham Young University ( 1996 ), and Valparaiso University ( 1999 ).

He has been a guest lecturer at such universities as Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, Johns Hopkins, Maine, California plus more than a dozen universities in Canada.

Two routes of the Utah Transit Authority's bus system also provide access to Brigham City from Ogden, and it also has a Greyhound bus stop.

Josh Brigham, one of the guitarists and the only founding member remaining during the recording of the album, has said: " Our music has always been spacey and heavy, and we use those roots, combined with our love of grunge-era Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr., HUM, and Pixies, we add some bigger, heavier riffs.

He has been a member of the faculty at Brigham Young University since 1986, and he was appointed chairman of the Department of Ancient Scripture there in 1990.

Kristen has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Utah and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Brigham Young University.

It has since been produced by Imagination Stage in MD, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Brigham Young University, and dozens of community and collegiate theaters.

Maine songwriter, musician, band leader, and Union soldier Thomas Brigham Bishop ( 1835 – 1905 ) has also been credited as the originator of the John Brown Song.

Rockwell has also been portrayed on screen by John Carradine in the 1940 film Brigham Young, by James Coburn in the 1995 TV-movie The Avenging Angel, and by Gyll Huff in the 1995 Trent Harris film Plan 10 from Outer Space.

“ Gates speculated that Heavenly Mother has played a significant role in all our lives, looking over us with ‘ watchful care ’ and providing ‘ careful training .’” Brigham Young preached that resurrected “ eternal mothers ” would “ be prepared to frame earths like unto ours .”

However, Brigham Young University professor David L. Paulsen has argued that such a belief finds no official backing in statements by church leaders, and that the concept that the Heavenly Mother is consigned to a " sacred silence " is largely the result of a relatively recent cultural perception.

Brigham Young University's Dr. Thomas G. Alexander, Professor of History, has stated quite assertively in his controversial July – August 1980 " Sunstone " article, " The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine ," that:

In the LDS Church, he has previously served as president of a student stake on the campus of Brigham Young University, a bishop, and high councilor.

A meta-analysis, Mullen has found evidence that the other-race effect is larger among White subjects than among African American subjects, whereas Brigham and Williamson ( 1979, cited in Shepherd, 1981 ) obtained the opposite pattern.

Cumulative population estimates of Brigham City, Weber County, Davis County, Salt Lake County, and Utah County for 2006 show that the Wasatch Front has an estimated population of 2, 051, 330 residents, or 80 % of Utah's estimated 2007 population of 2, 645, 330

Salt Lake City also has the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument, where Brigham Young, Eliza R. Snow, and other Mormon pioneers are buried and where a memorial exists dedicated to all who crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley.

* Paul Palmer ( physicist ), physics professor at Brigham Young University who has researched planetary fusion reactions

Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or George Q. Cannon or whoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation.