While the majority of the more than 60,000 Mormon immigrants (up to the coming of the railroad in 1869), the `49ers, Johnston's Army, and the Pony Express followed the pioneers of into the Great Salt Lake Valley, the Mormon Trail was not the only route through the Wasatch Range. 1847
[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Mormon Trail, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/m/MORMONTRAIL.html]
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