"The segment of the Mormon migration which came by water to California's shores has been by-passed by many writers of history, particularly by writers of church history. This was a church-sponsored (but not financed) plan to move the Atlantic seaboard members to the Upper-California," which included the Great Basin, where they hoped a new Zion might be established.". "These exiled Mormons chartered a cargo ship, the Brooklyn, and sailed from New...