The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.

The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated over time from the mid-1840s until the late 1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah. At the time…