As groups ( over 60, 000 ) arrived over a period of years, LDS settlers branched out and colonized a large region now known as the Mormon Corridor.

The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

Atchison's law practice flourished, and his best-known client was Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr .. Atchison represented Smith in land disputes with non-Mormon settlers in Caldwell County and Daviess County.

Members of the expedition were to discover South Pass, through which hundreds of thousands of settlers on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails passed through the Rocky Mountains.

During the fall of 1838, tensions escalated into the 1838 Mormon War with the old Missouri settlers.

The cooperative ethic that Mormons had developed over the last decade and a half became important as settlers branched out and colonized a large desert region now known as the Mormon Corridor.

In 1839, Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement visited Van Buren to plead for the U. S. to help roughly 20, 000 Mormon settlers of Independence, Missouri, who were forced from the state during the 1838 Mormon War there.

* 1857 – The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

He sees people flee from Europe to settle in America ; that the Bible ( a record from the Jews ) would travel among the people ; that the people settling in America would drive the indigenous people out of the land ; that the settlers would overpower Europe ; the discovery and translation of the Book of Mormon ; and that the apostle John the Revelator would write concerning the final days.

Scandinavians first came to Omaha as Mormon settlers in the Florence neighborhood.

Following persecution and mob action in Missouri, Illinois, and other states, and the martyrdom of their prophet Joseph Smith in 1844, Mormon leader Brigham Young was chosen by the leaders of the Latter Day Saints ( LDS ) church to lead the LDS settlers west.

Between 1847 and 1860 over 43, 000 Mormon settlers and tens of thousands of travelers on the California Trail and Oregon Trail followed Young to Utah.

The ferries were free for Mormon settlers while all others were charged a toll of from $ 3. 00 to $ 8. 00.

It was named for Col. Thomas L. Kane, a friend of the Mormon settlers.

The area was colonized by the Mormon settlers on 15 June 1864.

In 1847, William Clayton, a Mormon pioneer, invented the Roadometer, which he attached to a wagon used by American settlers heading west.

According to the Book of Mormon, a religious text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Nephite () is a member of one of the four main groups of settlers of the ancient Americas.

The other early settlers described in the Book of Mormon include the Lamanites, Jaredites and Mulekites.

The town of Genoa was originally settled in 1851 by Mormon traders selling goods to settlers on their way to California.

Joseph Smith's revelation came in 1838, two years after the county was organized, and spurred in an influx of Mormon settlers.

A few Mormon settlers, who had been evicted from Jackson County, Missouri, moved into the county in 1832, and included Jacob Haun, whose mill on Shoal Creek would become the scene of the bloodiest battle in the Mormon War, known as the Haun's Mill Massacre.

The Missouri General Assembly created Caldwell County in December 1836, with the understanding that it would be dedicated to Mormon settlers.

A Mormon community named Salem and led by David King Udall was establish just north of the town under the direction of Wilford Woodruff on March 29, 1880 and then moved to higher ground by Erastus Snow on September 19 of the same year.

After all his workers left him to go on their own hunt for gold, Sutter moved to Mormon Island with a couple of hands.

In December 1827, Smith and Emma moved to Harmony from Manchester, New York, to work on the translation of the golden plates of the Book of Mormon.

The Gentile merchants soon abandoned Corinne in favor of Ogden or the terminus of the rail line, while Mormon farmers moved in to buy the land around Corinne and make it into another Mormon settlement.

The Timpanogots were later moved out or integrated with the Mormon settlers between the 1850s and 1870s.

Thiebaud was born to Mormon parents in Mesa, Arizona, U. S. A .. His family moved to Long Beach, California when he was six months old.

In the long term, Mormon settlers eventually moved to Cache Valley as well.

The county seat was moved to the Mormon community of St. Thomas on October 1, 1867.

Around 1880 an LDS Church missionary converted his parents and they moved to the Mormon village of Manassa.

When Mormon militia from the town of Far West moved south to the militia camp on the Crooked River to rescue their co-religionists, the resulting battle aroused considerable terror throughout the western part of the state.

“ fter many days ,” a “ goodly number ” of people had “ gathered together at the place of Mormon, to hear the words of Alma .” Alma was no doubt moved by his audience ’ s willingness to “ on his word ”; thus, he encouraged each of them to have faith, repent, and be baptized unto Christ.

The Mormon force quickly moved south along the main road connecting Far West and Richmond.

In subsequent editions of the Book of Mormon, the testimony was moved to the beginning of the book and its spelling standardized.

In 1831, Whitmer moved with early Mormon believers to Kirtland, Ohio ; and then in 1832, he followed the church to Jackson County, Missouri, and was named Smith's successor even though he had criticized Smith's more recent innovations.

The testimony of the Eight Witnesses was first published at the end of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon and has been printed in nearly every edition since, although most subsequent editions moved the statement to the front of the book and included minor grammatical corrections.

When Rey was nine, the Pratts moved to Mexico to help settle Colonia Dublán, a Mormon colony in the northern state of Chihuahua.

The Algers first moved to Ashtabula, Ohio, and then to Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, ten miles southwest of the Mormon settlement at Kirtland.

As the need to supply and support Mormon pioneer companies waned in the region, Mount Pisgah's residents sold their land and improvements to other American frontiersmen and moved on to Latter-day Saint settlements in Utah and surrounding areas.

The family moved from Michigan to Nauvoo, Illinois and later migrated as Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847.

Mormon leaders decided that the Deseret News printing press should be moved from Salt Lake City and hidden in the basement of the statehouse in Fillmore.