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Rocky Mountains, North America
Summary
Mountain chain consisting of at least one hundred separate ranges, commencing in present-day New Mexico and continuing about 3,000 miles northwest to northern Canada. Determine flow of North American rivers and streams toward Atlantic or Pacific oceans. First explored by Europeans, ca. 1600s. Explored by Lewis and Clark, 1804–1806. Viewed by Latter-day Saint missionaries as potential region for missionary work among American Indians, Feb. 1831. Believed by some Latter-day Saints to be future “place of safety” for church, 1840. Council of Fifty decided to move church west of mountains to what was part of Mexico, 1844–1846. Saints began immigrating to western side of Wasatch Range, 1847.
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- Times and Seasons, 1 July 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 August 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 October 1842
- Affidavit from John P. Greene, 21 June 1844
- Appendix 2: Council of Fifty, Minutes, 27 February 1845
- Appendix 7: Council of Fifty, Minutes, 19 January 1846
- Appendix: Discourses, 22 June and 23 or 24 June 1844, as Recorded in Fullmer, Letterbook
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
- Discourse, 18 June 1844, as Reported by William Clayton
- Discourse, 18 June 1844, as Reported by William McIntire
- History Draft [1 January–21 June 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
- Letter from Editor, circa 21 February 1844
- Letter from Lester Brooks, 7 November 1842
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 26 April 1844
- Letter from P., before 15 August 1842
- Letter from “Old Fifty,” 15 October 1842
- Letter to Henry Clay, 13 May 1844