Questions and Links for CHFT 25-26

Study Questions for CHFT 25-26, to be discussed January 17 Ch. 25 1. How many days did it take the main “Camp of Israel” to cross Iowa? How many days to travel from Winter Quarters to the Salt Lake Valley? 2. List challenges the Saints faced in their trek across Iowa. How much did they complain? 3. Where was Garden Grove? Why did the camp establish a small community there? 4. When and from where did the Mormon Battalion begin their historic march? 5. What was the result of the Battle of Nauvoo? How many Saints died in Iowa Camps by the end of the first winter? 6. How many church members were scattered throughout the country in 1846? How many were in Winter Quarters? Ch. 26 1. What three groups of Saints headed west before the main body of pioneers left Winter Quarters? 2. What did the Mormon Battalion members’ payroll allowance to toward? What was accomplished by the Mormon Battalion? 3. Who was Samuel Brannnan? What did he do for the Church? 4. What two groups of pioneers formed a community at Pueblo during the winter of 1846-47? 5. When was Brigham Young sustained as president of the Church? Here are links to some relevant articles: "The Iowa Trek of 1846: The Brigham Young Route from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters" (June 1972 Ensign); "They Marched Their Way West: The Nauvoo Brass Band" (July 1980 Ensign); "The Mormon Battalion March, 1846-47" (July 1979 Ensign); "All is Well..." The Story of "the Hymn That Went around the World" (BYU pdf); "Suffering and Death on the Plains of Iowa" (BYU pdf).