by dwhite | Feb 7, 2012 | Pioneers
The story of the Saluda is strikingly sad, especially when one takes the perspective of William Dunbar, a Scottish convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (incorrectly referred to as the “Mormon Church” by the media). In the mid-1800s,...
by dwhite | Sep 8, 2011 | Mormon Historical Sites, Pioneers
It has always been a part of the heritage of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called Mormons by friends of other faiths) to remember those who have gone before them, who have suffered for the sake of building up the kingdom of God....
by dwhite | Jul 13, 2011 | Pioneers
In the early 1900s, a small, international back-to-the-soil movement of Jews affected a remote area in central Utah, and Clarion came into being. The Zionist movement was creating small communities in Israel where Jews could return and live. The idea spread and 40...
by dwhite | Mar 31, 2011 | Pioneers
After the arrival of the Saints in the Great Basin in 1847, Prophet Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church), sent out large groups of settlers to colonize the land all around them. One of...
by | Mar 24, 2010 | Inspiring Stories from Latter-day Saints, Pioneers
On Saturday, October 24, 2009, a group of nearly 500 gathered at Bluff, Utah, to commemorate the journey their Mormon ancestors had made 130 years before. In 1879, the then-president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, John Taylor, called a small group...
by | Jan 26, 2010 | Pioneers
While most Mormon pioneers travelled by foot and wagon across the United States, and later by rail when the railroad was completed, there were a few Saints who sailed from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States. One of the most famous of these groups...
Watch a video about the restoration of the gospel on lds.org