TIL as an alternative to Brigham Young’s wagon train trip to Salt Lake, Sam Brannan chartered a ship Brooklyn to take 238 passengers from New York, around the Cape Horn to Hawaii and then what is now San Francisco. Brannon then walked overland through Utah and met Young in what is now Wyoming.
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