This heroic image was created almost a quarter century after the winter departure of the Saints. The exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo has been inextricably linked in books and articles to the foundation of early Utah history.

1870 
Engraving 
Life in Utah

John William Orr

Mormons Driven Out of Nauvoo, Crossing the Mississippi on Ice

Migration from Nauvoo

Crossing the Mississippi Feb: 1846

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