Our Purpose
The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—casually dubbed Mormonism—is a modern epic. As a website, we desire to share that story with the world by sharing engaging, factual, and succinct accounts of the faith, dedication, and sacrifice of church members. We seek to be an honest resource where one can find biographies of past presidents and other influential members of the Church, personal accounts of church members, sourced articles regarding historical events, and online books on church history.
In addition to providing educational content, this website seeks to provide knowledge that may be used to satisfy one’s own curiosity, clear up confusion regarding certain historically-rooted subjects within the Church, strengthen personal testimonies, and promote open conversation between members and non-members alike. We invite you to not only read the information provided about the history of the Church, but to ponder upon the things which you learn.
Sincere questions and comments are always encouraged, as is guest content.
The Development of Salt Lake City
The Saints finally arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. After the Saints arrived they explored the valley to the north and south to determine where the best place was to begin building their city. The first site designated for a building was for the Salt...
The Mormon Battalion
April 5, 1848 The enlistment of the Mormon Battalion in the service of the United States though looked upon by many with astonishment and some with fear, has proved a great blessing to this community. It was indeed the temporal salvation of our camp, and although it...
Helen Whitney: Mormon Relations with Native Americans and Trials on the Trek West
Helen Whitney was the daughter of Heber C. Kimball and was married to Horace Whitney, the oldest son of Newel Whitney, shortly before they began their journey West. She gives details of the Saints' dealings with the Native Americans along the way, events at Winter...
Thomas Kane
Col. Kane was a member of the U.S. Army who had empathy for the Saints during the march of the Mormon Battalion, when they had lost so many of their men, and endeavored to help them to the best of his ability. During a sickness he contracted while with the Saints, he...
Job Smith
Beginning in July 1846 At Mount Pisgah a place where the pioneers had made a farm to raise sustenance for those who should follow—we fell in with a considerable number of English brethren, with whom we traveled to Council Bluffs. Distance from Nauvoo about 330 miles....
The End of the Journey
The first Saints arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. President Brigham Young was in the group, but had fallen ill towards the end of the journey and had been riding in a wagon. On the 24th, President Young rode out with a small group of men to survey the...
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