Westward Expansion Trails the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The Mormon Trail followed part of the Oregon Trail and then branched off at the fur trading post called Fort Bridger, founded by famed mountain man Jim Bridger. Heading south and following river valleys southwestward to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, Brigham Young led the first Mormons into present-day Utah during 1847. The Mormon Trail is 1,300 miles long and extends from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon Trail was used for more than 20 years after the Mormons used it and has been reserved for sightseeing. The initial
Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City, Utah) novel "The Da Vinci Code" in 2003 and subsequent release of the movie in 2006, the number of visitors to the reliquary of Saint Mary Magdelene increased significantly. The Cathedral is home to the only co-educational Catholic Choir School in the United States. The Madeleine Choir School, established in 1996, now serves over 350 students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade Eight. Composer Amédée Tremblay notably served as the church's organist from 1920 to 1925. Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City, Utah) The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was