Along the trail south from just a few miles past St. The southwest corner of Utah is the northeast corner of Joshua tree country. It was founded in what is now the southwest corner of the state of Utah. Saint George, founded in 1861 as a cotton-growing outpost in a region still known locally as "Dixie," was another settlement on the Spanish Trail. A string of settlements grew between San Bernardino and Salt Lake, most of them along the Old Spanish Trail, which Mormon Battalion soldiers had helped improve for wagon travel a few years before.Īmong those settlements was Las Vegas, founded at the site of verdant freshwater marshes at the base of the Spring Range, which aside from a rest stop along the trail served as a base from which to proselytize the local Natives. In 1851, one such colony was founded in San Bernardino, California. Brigham Young sent settler parties to occupy lands to the southwest starting in around 1850. Mormon Battalion soldiers returning to the Salt Lake Valley brought with them descriptions of survivable routes through the desert to the Pacific coast. Mormon migrants did see big tree yuccas in the course of their 19th century travels, but they saw them along a different trail altogether. The writer may have his or her trails confused. East of Deseret there are no Joshua trees outside of botanic gardens, of which there were none along the Mormon Trail during the Mormon Migration from 1847-1869. To travel westward toward the Mormon's Promised Land of Deseret, one must necessarily be somewhat to the east of Deseret. Let's dispose of that second quote first, though it's hardly sporting. Others, such as this person, say things like "Mormon settlers gave the Joshua tree its distinctive name when they were traveling westward toward their promised land."
Some say that the Mormons' first glimpse of Joshua trees along the trail marked the halfway point of their journey. It's a pretty story, and very widespread. That's the version of the Joshua tree's naming origin story that shows up on Wikipedia, as succinct a version of the story as I have read. The tree's unique shape reminded them of a Biblical story in which Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer." "The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century.
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