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Emigration from Europe

Leaving home in Europe to join the Saints in America. Every account below is a long-form, documented narrative from the archive.

58 accounts · drawn only from substantive narratives

Brigham Young's 1846 Revelation to Reuben Miller Exposing James J. Strang

Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt’s Vision of the Salt Lake Valley(1847)

Dan Jones: The River Captain Whose Chance Encounter with Joseph Smith's Stranded Boat Changed the History of Wales(1843)

Heber C. Kimball's Blessing Fulfilled — Elizabeth Brotherton Receives the Gift of Tongues That Night, and Her Whole Family Joins the Church Within Three Months (England, 1840)

Robert Lang Campbell — Patriarchal Blessing Promises(1845)

Erastus Snow — Providential Entrance into the Salt Lake Valley(1847)

Hyrum Smith's Last Blessing: Robert Erwin Baird, Teamster and Healer of the First Company (1844–1847)

The Oldest Man in the Ranks: George Mills, Sixty Years Old on the Trail (1847)

Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby: The Enslaved Black Pioneers Who Scouted and Built the First Road into the Salt Lake Valley (July 22, 1847)

The First Shoes Made in Salt Lake City: Norwegian Orphan Ellen Sanders Kimball of the Vanguard Company(1847)

Green Flake: The Enslaved Pioneer Who Drove the First Wagon into the Salt Lake Valley (July 1847)

"A Testimony That He Would Recover from That Hour": Prayer and the Mountain Fever of Brigham Young and Albert Perry Rockwood (July 1847)

Peter A. Forsgren's Healing from Consumption(1850)

Anthon H. Lund's Miraculous Sustenance and Protection during Early Missionary Labors(1860s)

Divine Protection of Emigrants on the Minnesota(1868)

Elder George D. Grant and William H. Kimball preserved by the finger of Providence(1856)

Dan Jones: Joseph Smith's Final Prophecy — 'You Will Yet See Wales and Fulfill the Mission Appointed You Before You Die'(1844)

Elder John A. Hawks and L. A. Shepherd's miraculous mission progress despite threats(1884)

Preservation of Continental and British Saints on the ship Caroline(1866)

Christian A. Madsen's Vindication from False Charges in Copenhagen(1866)

Brigham Young Jr.'s Prayer for Emigration Answered with Favorable Weather(1865)

George Reynolds's Protection from Indians During Journey to Salt Lake City(1865)

Richard Badham's stabbing and miraculous recovery(1843)

Charles Derry — Answered Prayer for His Dying Son on the 1854 Emigration to Utah

John Williams and the Saints on the Columbia preserved during voyage(1856)

Edward Martin's Protection and Spiritual Encouragement on the Horizon(1856)

Deliverance of Saints from Cholera on Missouri River Steamboats(1855)

Elder D. Spencer and Associates Guided to Success in Obtaining Supplies(1855)

Saints in Staffordshire Conference sustained by the Lord(1855)

Two Elders Divinely Protected and Rescued from a Mob in Caermarthenshire(1854)

Scandinavian Saints' preservation at sea(1854)

Whitehead's Son Spared from the Governor Fenner Shipwreck by Joining the Saints' Company (1841)

Louisa Mellor Clark Finds a Warm Pie in the Road After Praying for Her Dying Mother — Martin Handcart Company (1856)

Unheeded Warning: William C. Dunbar's Foreboding Before the Saluda Steamboat Explosion (1852)

James Caffall — Vision in Salt Lake City Regarding the Reorganization(1866)

Susanna Porritt Barnes — Vision of the Salt Lake Valley(1840s)

Solomon Chamberlain - Miraculous Long Life to Witness Restoration and Build Zion(1858)

Louisa Bonelli Hamblin — The Swiss Conversion Vision(1850s)

The Conversion and Sacrifice of Ebenezer Bryce(1848)

From Opponent to Translator: The Conversion of Curtis E. Bolton(1840)

Alexander Bankhead: A Devout Black Latter-day Saint Pioneer of Spanish Fork (1848)

Green Flake: The Enslaved Pioneer Who Drove the First Wagon into the Salt Lake Valley (July 1847)

May Anderson: Second General Primary President and First Editor of 'The Children's Friend'(1902)

Carl Christian Amussen: The Danish Pioneer Jeweler Who Appeared to His Wife to Tell Her the Day of Her Death(1942)

Mons and Elna Larson Miraculously Provided with Bread and Fish When Provisions Ran Out(1859)

Jacob Norton: Captain of the 12th Ten—Leading the 1847 Vanguard with Faith and Detailed Record (1847)

Franklin D. Richards: The Apostle Who Endorsed the Late Departure and Then Raced to Bring Help(1856)

John Linford: He Died Pulling His Cart at the Sixth Crossing of the Sweetwater — His Name on a Monument(1856)

James G. Willie: From English Convert to Handcart Captain — Led His Company Through Death and Into Zion(1856)

Cyrus Wheelock: Just Off a Mission to England, He Turned Around and Rode Back Into Wyoming to Find the Saints He'd Sent West(1856)

Charles Sansom: The Gloucestershire Teenager Who Crossed the Ocean for Zion and Left a Record of His Voyage(1845)

Mary Ann Weston Maughan: The Dressmaker's Apprentice Whose Landlords Led Her to the Gospel(1840)

Fanny Stenhouse — Who Later Left the Church — Testified “I Saw a Miracle”: A Bedridden Englishwoman Restored by LDS Elders (c. 1850)

George Cunningham's Prophetic Dream: Rescuers in Blue Coats Appear Before They Arrive(1856)

Peter McBride: His Father Made 25 Crossings of an Icy River, Then Died — and Peter Asked for His Fish Hooks(1856)

Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson: 'My Husband Was Dead. I Will Yet Reach Zion'(1856)

Mary Pitt Healed After Eleven Years of Lameness at Dymock, England (May 18, 1840)

Heber C. Kimball Prophesies Clothing Will Be Cheaper in Salt Lake City Than in New York — Fulfilled by Gold Rush Emigrants(1849)

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