Mormon Migration Success

• Conditions at Salt Lake Valley

  • Truly inhospitable place, landscape needed to be tamed
• First Mormon migrants arriving

  • Women and children among them, supplies laid along the route
• Source D: 'A description of Salt Lake Valley written by one of the first settlers: "A broad and barren plain hemmed in by mountains, blistering in the burning rays of the midsummer sun. No waving fields, no swaying forests, no green meadows, but on all sides a seemingly endless waste of sagebrush, the paradise of the lizard, the cricket, and the rattlesnake."'
• Brigham Young


  • Guided the Mormons to Salt Lake Valley, ensured their thriving, enforced strict organization
• Mormons believed Brigham Young was God's prophet

  Followed his lead
• Brigham Young decreed that the church owned all the land


  Simplified settlement and organization
• Establishing Salt Lake City


  Young gave clear orders of who did what, ensured problems were prioritized and solved, organized wider settlements with the right set of skills
• Overcoming the landscape

  Organized schemes to bring fresh water, irrigation channels dug, lack of trees overcome by planting, dispersed settlements provided timber and rocks for building
• Mormons thrived in Salt Lake Valley due to Brigham Young's organization, leadership, people's belief in the Church of Latter-Day Saints, and overcoming the landscape challenges
• Significant challenges were faced in establishing a thriving settlement in Salt Lake Valley
• Salt Lake City was established, grew, and thrived
• The Mormons still thrive in Salt Lake City today