Mormons also have experienced a turbulent history. In the early nineteenth century, Mormons were not welcomed in many U.S. communities, moving from New York to Ohio to Issinois, where they founded the town of Nauvoo (Hebrew for "beautiful place"). After the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith in 1844, however, Brigham Young decided to take the Moemons west, on what today is known as the Mormon Trek. Eventually, after crossing the pass into the Salt Lake Basin, Young is purported to have claimed, "This is the place!" Without understanding this history, you may not understand why so many Mormons today live in Salt Lake City and elsewhere in Utah.