On this day in US history, after over 17 months, Brigham Young led 148 pioneers into Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake on July 24, 1847. Looking for a place that “nobody wanted,” the settlers would travel hundreds of miles to find a place where they were free to practice their religion and politics. They travelled from modern-day Iowa to where Salt Lake City would eventually be built, travelling on wagons and pushing handcarts the whole way. This would become the origin of the church of Latter-day Saints in Utah and the place they would call their promised land.