Today in History - July 24

Completing a treacherous thousand-mile exodus, an ill and exhausted Brigham Young and fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints arrived at Utah's Great Salt Lake valley on July 24, 1847.  Continue reading.

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