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Religious reasons for traveling west included missionary endeavors and escape from religious persecution.

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True.

Religious motives were significant: missionaries (e.g., Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Catholic and Protestant missions) went west to convert Native peoples, and groups like the Mormons migrated west (Brigham Young to Utah) to escape persecution and find religious refuge.