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Events on Wednesday 21 July 1847 1
1847Mormon pioneers enter the Salt Lake ValleyBrigham Young's company reaches the site of Salt Lake CityThe first Latter-day Saint pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, with Brigham Young arriving on 24 July. They began planting crops and laying out a city. The settlement became the centre of the Mormon colonisation of the American West.