The first season of the acclaimed History of the Saints documentary  television series begins where the last season of the Joseph Smith  Papers left off; the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith at Carthage, and follows  the Latter-day Saints through the last days of Nauvoo and across the  plains in search of their new home somewhere over the Rocky Mountains. History of the Saints: Gathering to the West contains  35 half-hour episodes and concludes with arrival of President Brigham  Young and the Vanguard Company into the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847.  The producers of this series have combined the most reliable historical  scholarship with music, art, and video, to bring you a product that is  at once instructive and inspiring.