Crossing the Mississippi Feb: 1846
- Medium
Oil on canvas
Courtesy the Morgan Dyreng family
Under the threat of violence, the main group of Mormon pioneers left Nauvoo in February 1846. Many crossed the frozen Mississippi River, launching a journey that would eventually take them over fifteen hundred miles to Utah. The Saints quickly came to see their journey in biblical terms as the exodus of the Camp of Israel into the wilderness. This experience became one of the defining events in Latter–day Saint history.