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Modern Mormon Trek

NPR
Published June 18, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

More than 100 Mormons are recreating the covered wagon journey their ancestors took from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City in 1846. Noah talks to Linda Whitaker, who is making the trip with her four children and her husband.

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