24,000 miles by sea and 850 miles on foot before Young covered 1,200 miles by wagon train.

The Brooklyn colonists invested their time and resources into building up the Bay area, expecting the main body of Latter-day Saints to settle near them. However, Brigham Young chose the Great Salt Lake Valley as the center place for the Mormon population and as the site for a holy temple to be built.[23] When official word of the new gathering place was issued, Samuel Brannan informed the disappointed Brooklyn settlers that their communal endeavors in San Francisco were at an end....about half of the Brooklyn settlers were recruited to trek overland to Utah, two of them went to Hawaii and the rest emigrated back to the eastern states.

I want to hear about the two people that went to Hawaii. Were they trying to spread the word of Mormon or were they frustrated and just said fuck it?

This appears to be one of them. Can't figure out the second. While that guy appears to've returned purely for financial reasons, the first Mormon missionaries to Hawaii arrived from SF during the Gold Rush years, so the timeline works for one of them to've returned as a missionary. Mormonism is still pretty big in Hawaii and throughout the Pacific islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Hawaii

BYU has quite the presence in Oahu

Taking a ship around was always the way to go if you could afford it.

You could also take a ship to Panama, cross there, and then take a ship to California if you wanted to save a few months onboard ship.

True to form, a fuckin idiot. Dum dum dum Dum