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Cooke's Wagon Road or Cooke's Road was the first wagon road between the Rio Grande and the Colorado River to San Diego, through the Mexican provinces of Nuevo México, Chihuahua, Sonora and Alta California, established by Philip St. George Cooke and the Mormon Battalion, from October 19, 1846 to January 29, 1847 during the Mexican–American War.
Revised map of Mormon Battalion routes with all detachment routes shown. The battalion arrived at Fort Leavenworth on August 1. [ 17 ] For the next two weeks, they drew their clothing allowance of $42 per man, received their equipment ( Model 1816 smoothbore flintlock muskets and a few Harper's Ferry Model 1803 Rifles ), and were more formally ...
Map showing the westward exodus of the LDS Church between 1846 and 1869. Also shown is a portion of the route followed by the Mormon Battalion, which fought in the Mexican-American War, and the path followed by the handcart companies to the Mormon Trail.
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los ...
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,100 km) route from Illinois to Utah on which Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) traveled from 1846 to 1869. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System , known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail .
The Mormon Battalion's story has largely been forgotten because it didn't participate in gun-fueled battles with the Mexican army or any raiders along the trail during the war, said longtime New ...
With the gold they unearthed, by July 1849, about half of the Brooklyn pioneers outfitted wagons and headed over the Sierras to Salt Lake City [30] on a new route built by veterans of the Mormon Battalion. Their Mormon Emigrant Trail through Carson Pass [31] became the main route west for gold seekers to reach the mining regions. [32]
Cooke's Canyon is named for Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke, who commanded the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to San Diego, California during the Mexican War. Their task was to establish a wagon road, which later was called Cooke's Wagon Road, and became the primary route used by the Southern Emigrant Trail.