By: Ardis E. Parshall - June 17, 2013 The Mormon Exodus from Nauvoo is reckoned as having begun on 4 February 1846 when the first wagons crossed the ice-covered Mississippi River, heading west. But in one sense, Mormons never abandoned Nauvoo – letters throughout the 19th century contain references by missionaries who stopped there on their way to the mission fields in the 19th century, first by those who had lived there under the lead...
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