Trekkin'
Most common form of transport from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City
Walking
The Salt Lake valley was territory of this nation when the pioneer arrived in 1847
Mexico
Sick with mountain fever, this prophet entered the Salt Lake Valley in the bed of a wagon
Brigham Young
You don’t have to push a handcart,
Leave your fam’ly dear,
Or walk a thousand miles or more
___ ___ ___ ___.
To be a pioneer
Number of national parks in Utah
5
The two handcart companies who left dangerously late in the season and were later rescued after much hardship
Willie and Martin
State bird
California Gull
This man drove Brigham Young's wagon and later was the prophet who ended plural marriage
Wilford Woodruff
They washed at streams and worked and played.
Sundays they camped and ____ & ____.
Read & prayed
Utah State University
About 1,300
Seraph Young became the first woman to vote in the United States in 1870 on this holiday
Valentines Day
Name one of the three African American slaves who were among the very first to enter the valley
Green Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby
’Tis better far for us to strive
Our ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
useless cares from us to drive
Utah comes from the Native American tribe name Ute meaning
People of the Mountain
Percentage of pioneers who came by handcart
5%
1869
This woman was a Welsh immigrant who crossed the plains at age 14. She later became a doctor, suffragist and Utah's first female senator.
Martha Hughes Cannon
1. They, the builders of the nation,
Blazing ____ ____ ____ _____.
trails along the way
Fry sauce was made popular by this Utah based Burger Chain
Arctic Circle
The transcontinental railroad was completed this year, ending the use of the Mormon trail
1869
Utah applied for statehood this many times
Wrote the song 'Come Come Ye Saints'
William Clayton
We’ll roam the verdant hills
And by the sparkling rills
Pluck the _______
wildflow’rs
Official cooking pot of the state of Utah (only state to have one)
Dutch Oven