Table of Contents
Winter exodus from Nauvoo: Brigham Young's Camp of Israel, 1846 / William G. Hartley -- "We were willing because we were obliged to": The Mormons, their religion and why they left Nauvoo / James B. Allen -- Mormon satellite settlements in Hancock County, Illinois and Lee County, Iowa / Donald Q. Cannon -- Nauvoo on the eve of the exodus / Susan Easton Black -- Iowa in 1846: context for the trail / Loren N. Horton -- Spring exodus from Nauvoo: act two in the 1846 Mormon evacuation drama / William G. Hartley -- Social life on the Mormon Trail and the meaning of the Camp of Israel: an essay / Stanley B. Kimball -- "But with joy wend your way": women on the Iowa Mormon Trail / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- The Nauvoo Brass Band and its involvement in the Nauvoo exodus / J. Mark Ammons -- Interrupted exodus: enlisting the Mormon Battalion as Iowa volunteers / Larry C. Porter -- "Dadda, I wish we were out of this country": the Nauvoo Poor Camps in Iowa, Fall 1846 / Richard E. Bennett -- Pottawattamie County: the Mormon Trail and ferry system in southwestern Iowa / Gail Geo. Holmes -- A legacy of exodus / Richard E. Bennett -- Lee County: Montrose, a once-proposed Mormon temple site? / Mike Foley -- Van Buren County / Ralph Arnold -- Davis County / Dorothy Gentry and Rick Krenz -- Appanoose County / Willis Heusinkveld -- Wayne County: the story of "Come, come, ye saints" / D. Elbert Pidcock -- Decatur County: Garden Grove, a Mormon frontier community, 1846-1852 / Paul and Karla Gunzenhauser -- Lucas County / John G. Pierce -- Clarke County / William Carper -- Union County: the Mount Pisgah experience / Robert Brown and Mary Hilger -- Adair County / Lana Pals -- Cass County / Floyd E. Pearce.