A Permanent Home As Young was reaching his destination, another wagon train with more than 1,500 people and nearly 600 cows was leaving Winter Quarters and heading west. Over the next two decades ...

Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.

Meanwhile, the passenger ship Brooklyn began its own voyage, leaving New York harbor on Feb. 4, 1846, the same day that the first wagons rolled down Parley Street in Nauvoo heading west.