[Nauvoo] Gov. Thomas Ford sent a letter suggesting that the U.S. government might not let the Saints go west. As a result, Brigham Young gathered about 1,000 individuals to go west in February of that year. It was a very bitter and snowy winter, and it took three weeks for this number to cross the Mississippi River, which had frozen.
[source: LDS Church News: Nauvoo -- The City of Joseph, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58063/Church-history--Nauvoo.html]
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