Reviews for Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail

The average rating for Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-26 00:00:00 Daniel Karst A great read about the history of the trail used by the Mormon's and others in settling the West. Takes you to the point where the transcontinental railroad made the travel time go from months down to 8 days to cross the plains. The side bar notes bothered me a little even though they were very interesting--sometimes they came right in the middle of a paragraph and you had to go two or three pages to pick up where you left off.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-23 00:00:00 Michael Rojas This was a book to go with a PBS series on the major migration trails of the Westard movement, although I only saw the Oregon and Mormon trail episodes and don't even know if the others were ever really produced. Anyway, I saw the show on the BYU Channel in the middle of the night last night and picked up the book this morning again for the first time in a while. It is really a good history of the Mormon trek. It is fully of good historical documentation, stories, documents, drawings, photographs, etc. This is really a thorough compilation of the way west along this trail route. Great book to read or glance at in remembrance of Pioneer Day.