Miraculous Intervention That Changed History

5 accounts from the Mormon Battalion Miracles collection

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The Mormon-Carson Pass: How Returning Battalion Veterans Blazed the California Gold Rush Trail (Summer 1848)

Colonel Philip St. George Cooke’s Farewell Order: ‘History May Be Searched in Vain for an Equal March of Infantry’ (1847)

Mormon Battalion Members Discover Gold at Sutter's Mill — Fulfilling Joseph Smith's Prophecy That the Saints Would Be Driven to the Mountains and Become a Mighty People(1848)

Henry William Bigler — Diary entry recording Sutter's Mill gold discovery (January 24, 1848)

Building Fort Moore on the Fourth of July: Mormon Battalion Soldiers Celebrate Independence Day by Constructing California’s First American Fort (1847)