10/ Southwest Iowa and several camps and towns in
eastern Nebraska. And they staged wagon trains of pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley as fast as they
could raise supplies and equipment for the 1000-
mile journey. Unlike the great rush of men to
California about that same time, this was a family
movement, including the very young and the very
old. And the Mormons were going to a desert valley
to establish agricultural communities, so they had
to take much with them in order to survive the
 first months of building, planting and waiting for
their first harvest.