Panaca was southern Nevada's first permanent settlement, founded as a Mormon colony in 1864.

Colonia Dublán began as a Mormon colony, located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.

In 1926, Skousen went to the Mormon colony, Colonia Juarez, Mexico for two years to help his seriously ill grandmother.

There was time afterward to poke around the remains of Fruita, a former historic settlement of a Mormon colony that sits within the park boundaries.

The first permanent settlers arrived in 1850 to establish one of Brigham Young's more than 350 Mormon colonies throughout Utah Territory.

The order led to the founding last Mormon colony settled under the direction of Brigham Young.

Prior to this he had used it as a Mormon colony.

In 1851 he was called by his church to help create a Mormon colony in San Bernardino, California.

It was the first Mormon colony established by Lyman Wight in Texas.

The rise and fall of the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California, is one of the forgotten epics of Western history.