--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 30 number: 9 published: 1927-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “On the Pioneer Trail of 1847,” *Improvement Era* 30, no. 9 (July 1927): 763–768." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3009unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera3009unse start_page: 763 end_page: 768 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1927-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3009unse publication_year: 1927 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1927, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # On the Pioneer Trail of 1847 ON THE PIONEER TRAIL OF 1847 Photographs of Important landmarks by Mr. George Ed. Anderson, Springville, Utah, taken on a trip over the trail with Church Historian Andrew Jenson, July, 1926. Independence Rock, Wyoming, a close-up view, taken July 8, 19 26. The Sweetwater, as seen from the cliffs, immediately eastof Devil's Gate, Wyoming, looking upstream in a southwesterly direction. o ° ON THE PIONEER TRAIL 765 Fort Laramie. Wyoming. Here the Pioneers arrived June 1, 184 7. Seventeen Saints who had left the Mississippi in 1846 here joined the Pioneers, being a part of the company who had wintered at Pueblo. The remainder of the Pueblo company came with Captain Brown's detachment of the Battalion, arriving in the Valley with the Mississippi Saints, July 29, 184 7, increasing the number in the Valley to about 400. Echo Canyon, Utah, looking east up the canyon. h ™ ON THE PIONEER TRAIL 767 This Pioneer monument was erected on a hill immediately cast of where the Pioneers crossed Bear River, in Wyoming, on July 12, 1847. The monument was erected by members of the Woodruff stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in honor of the Pioneers who crossed this spot July 12, 184 7, under the leadership of Brigham Young. The monument was dedicated September 2 8, 19 24. Andrew Jenson. the center figure, is standing on the Pioneer Trail looking toward the crossing of the river. Henefer, Summit county, Utah. Here the emigrants passed to go through East canyon, thence over the mountains to Salt Lake Valley.