Map Showing the Movements of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints…

Mapping the trek of the Mormon pioneers.

This large and brightly colored map of the northern and western United States was compiled under the direction of A. William Lund and published by the Deseret Book Company in Salt Lake City, UT in 1929. Designed to be hung on a wall for easier scrutiny, the image presents an engaging and comprehensible overview of the various routes taken West by Mormon pioneers during the mid-19th century.

Encampments are noted and dated along each path, which traverse hundreds of miles across the Midwest and Great Plains to the Great Salt Lake Valley and beyond. Scattered topography is depicted in hachure and a handful of geographic features and major settlements are named, but otherwise the geographic data is sparse. The lower left corner shows an inset of the area in New York around Hill Cumorah, “where the Angel Moroni gave Joseph the Plates”, according to the corresponding annotation. An index of important locations and LDS concepts, as well as a list of the pioneers of 1847, can be found at the bottom of the sheet.