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重現當初摩門教徒抵達鹽湖谷的情景，1997年的拓荒者日
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猶他州的拓荒者
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它曾被稱為美國歷史上，規模最大的一次人類遷徙，您知道是那一次的遷徙嗎？
到了1869年為止，約有70,000位基督教末世聖徒教會的教徒(又名摩門教徒)曾行經或搭乘篷車，穿越1,300哩的荒野，來到猶他州的鹽湖城。這些想要尋求宗教自由的摩門教徒，沿途留下了6,000座墓地。這趟旅程的路途，等於紐約市到邁阿密，或西雅圖到聖地牙哥的距離。
「就是這兒了，走吧」，這是1847年7月24日，年齡最大的摩門教徒楊百翰所說的話，當時的他，因為生病而躺臥在馬車的帳蓬內。這個地方就是鹽湖的大河谷，也就是後來的猶他州。這些向西部前進的摩門教徒，想要脫離他們在美國東部所面臨的迫害及建立一個他們自己的社區。當楊百翰及其148名摩門教徒建立了「這個社區」，超過70,000位摩門教徒決定跟隨。
自1849年以來，鹽湖城每年都會在拓荒者日當天，緬懷這些摩門教先驅。1997年，一長列的摩門篷車隊伍，重現當初的拓荒者旅程，藉以做為楊百翰抵達猶他州的150週年紀念活動，而這趟旅程總共花了他們三個月的時間！
It's been called the largest human migration in American history. Do you know what that refers to?
By 1869, perhaps 70,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormons, had walked or traveled in wagons across 1,300 miles of wilderness to Salt Lake City, Utah. Leaving 6,000 in graves along the way, the Mormons were searching for religious freedom. Their journey was equal to the distance from New York City to Miami, or Seattle to San Diego.
"This is the right place. Drive on." These were the words that Brigham Young, top Elder of the Mormons, said on July 24, 1847, as he lay sick in the back of a wagon. The place was the great valley of the Salt Lake, in what would become the state of Utah. The Mormons wanted to leave the persecution they faced in the eastern part of the United States and start a community of their own out west. Once Brigham Young and his band of 148 Mormons had found "the place," more than 70,000 Mormons decided to follow.
Every year since 1849, Salt Lake City has remembered the Mormon pioneers on Pioneer Day. In 1997, a Mormon wagon train re-created the journey of these pioneers, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Brigham Young's arrival in Utah. The trip took three months!
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