Journal of the Handcart Pioneers
Author : Glenn Rawson
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Mormon handcart companies
ISBN : 9780997669459
Author : Glenn Rawson
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Mormon handcart companies
ISBN : 9780997669459
Author : Andrew D. Olsen
Publisher : Deseret Book
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781609075941
Author : Andrew D. Olsen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781609078706
Author : Candy Moulton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0806163852
In 1856 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints employed a new means of getting converts to Great Salt Lake City who could not afford the journey otherwise. They began using handcarts, thus initiating a five-year experiment that has become a legend in the annals of Mormon and North American migration. Only one in ten Mormon emigrants used handcarts, but of those 3,000 who did between 1856 and 1860, most survived the harrowing journey to settle Utah and become members of a remarkable pioneer generation. Others were not so lucky. More than 200 died along the way, victims of exhaustion, accident, and, for a few, starvation and exposure to late-season Wyoming blizzards. Now, Candy Moulton tells of their successes, travails, and tragedies in an epic retelling of a legendary story. The Mormon Handcart Migration traces each stage of the journey, from the transatlantic voyage of newly converted church members to the gathering of the faithful in the eastern Nebraska encampment known as Winter Quarters. She then traces their trek from the western Great Plains, across modern-day Wyoming, to their final destination at Great Salt Lake. The handcart experiment was the brainchild of Mormon leader Brigham Young, who decreed that the saints could haul their own possessions, pushing or pulling two-wheeled carts across 1,100 miles of rough terrain, much of it roadless and some of it untrodden. The LDS church now embraces the saga of the handcart emigrants—including even the disaster that befell the Martin and Willie handcart companies in central Wyoming in 1856—as an educational, faith-inspiring experience for thousands of youth each year. Moulton skillfully weaves together scores of firsthand accounts from the journals, letters, diaries, reminiscences, and autobiographies the handcart pioneers left behind. Depth of research and unprecedented detail make this volume an essential history of the Mormon handcart migration.
Author : Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1416539883
Traces the tragedy-marked 1856 journey of three thousand Mormons from Iowa to Utah, explaining how leader Brigham Young disregarded warnings and then convinced his followers that hardships and deaths were part of a higher plan.
Author : Susan Arrington Madsen
Publisher : Millennial Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : 9781932597493
In 1856. President Brigham Young sent rescue teams to the aid of more than a thousand pioneers who were stranded in winter storms on the plains. Little did anyone know then of the need those faithful Saints would have for a Second Rescue-a spiritual rescue that would begin 135 years later. In 1987, the saints of the Riverton Wyoming Stake embarked on a sacred trek of their own, a journey filled with miracles and laden with spiritual blessings. The Second Rescue is the story of that journey. It tells of faithful people working together to provide temple blessings of the Willie and Martin handcart pioneers and for their immediate families. It chronicles their trials and triumphs in their efforts to build monuments and pave the way for others to experience the sacred sites associated with the handcart prioneers.
Author : History of the Saints Inc.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781735596204
Journal entries of the Mormon Pioneers from their trek pulling handcarts across the plains from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake Valley. There were 10 handcart companies that came to Salt Lake between the years of 1856-1860.
Author : Covenant Communications, Incorporated
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Handcarts
ISBN : 9781621083535
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250005027
Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.