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Pioneers

"It is not enough to study or reenact the accomplishments of our pioneers. We need to identify the great, eternal principles they applied to achieve all they achieved for our benefit and then apply those principles to the challenges of our day. In that way we honor their pioneering efforts, and we also reaffirm our heritage and strengthen its capacity to bless our own posterity and 'those millions of our Heavenly Father's children who have yet to hear and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ' (Our Heritage: A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [1996], 145). We are all pioneers in doing so."

(Dallin H. Oaks, "Following the Pioneers," Ensign, Nov. 1997, 72)

Keywords: Mormon Pioneers, LDS Pioneers

Pioneers

New study: Mormon pioneers were safer on trek than previously thought

The Mormon pioneer mortality rate wasn't much worse than that of the general American population in 1850. Ref. Source 6

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About Utah: One group's disaster paved the way for another's success

The ill-fated Donner Party of 1846 helped clear the path for the triumphant arrival of the Mormon pioneers. Ref. Source 2z