1. What is happening here?

2. Who is this man?

4. Lesson Objectives
To be able to explain Brigham Young’s role in guiding the Mormons out of the East and to a safe haven where they could build a holy city.

6. What was the Mormon’s first impressions of the Great Salt Lake?
‘For Heaven’s sake don’t stop in this God forsaken land. Nobody on earth wants it. Come to California, to a land of sunshine and flowers’
- Sam Bannan, 1847

7. - Young’s sister-in-law, Harriet, 1847
My feelings were such as I could not describe. Everything looked gloomy and I felt heart sick. Weak and weary as I am, I would rather go a thousand miles farther than remain in such a desolate and forsaken spot as this
- Young’s sister-in-law, Harriet, 1847