Members try selling their homes to get funds to go west. Nauvoo becomes a city of wagon builders: homes were turned to shops where wagon covers were sewn; wheelwrights worked in several locations and wagon makers worked long into the night. They planned to leave as soon as "green grass would grow and water would flow."
[source: LDS Church News: Nauvoo -- The City of Joseph, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58063/Church-history--Nauvoo.html]
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