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.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, ...