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Wend Your Way

A Guide to Sites along the Iowa Mormon Trail

by L. Matthew Chatterley

Bur Oak Guides

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102 pages, 6x9
$14.95 paper 1-58729-571-7, 978-1-58729-571-3

Wend Your Way: A Guide to Sites Along the Mormon Trail tells the story of this great movement through Iowa. Tracing the trail from east to west through 12 counties the guide includes:

  • Mormon Trail history for each county
  • Directs visitors to the 27 interpretive roadside panels that were constructed on the trail by U.S. National Park Service and Iowa Mormon Trails Association
  • Reproduces the poignant illustrations that author L. Matthew Chatterley drew for these wayside exhibits
  • Provides a map and directions by county to guide travelers to the route of the Mormon Trail, sites of Mormon camps and settlements and the interpretive roadside panels
  • Lists other locations in southern Iowa that visitors will want to explore

L. Matthew Chatterley is a senior artists at The Des Moines Register.

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