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The Mormon Handcart Migration
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Author : Candy Moulton
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-04-25
The Mormon Handcart Migration written by Candy Moulton and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with History categories.
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.
Handcarts To Zion
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Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Handcarts To Zion written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with History categories.
It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith. Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood. Some of the weary travelers would finally be welcomed by their brethren in Salt Lake City; others would go to wayside graves or get caught in early winter storms in the Rockies and hope to be rescued by the parties sent out by Brigham Young. The migration is described in Handcarts to Zion, which draws on diaries and reports of the participants, rosters of the ten companies, and a collection of the songs sung on the trail and at "The Gathering." LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen dedicated the book to his mother, Mary Ann Hafen, who wrote about the long journey in Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier, also a Bison Book.
Handcarts To Zion 1856 1860
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Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
language : en
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
Release Date : 1988-06-01
Handcarts To Zion 1856 1860 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and has been published by Arthur H. Clark Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-01 with Mormon Church categories.
The Mormon Handcart Migration
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Author : Candy Moulton
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-04-25
The Mormon Handcart Migration written by Candy Moulton and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with History categories.
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.
Handcarts To Zion The Story Of A Unique Western Migration
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Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Handcarts To Zion The Story Of A Unique Western Migration written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Handcarts categories.
Handcarts To Zion
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Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Handcarts To Zion written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Handcarts To Zion
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Author : LeRoy R. Hafen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Handcarts To Zion written by LeRoy R. Hafen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
Devil S Gate
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Author : David Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008
Devil S Gate written by David Roberts and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
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.
Handcarts To Zion The Story Of A Unique Western Migration 1856 1860 With Contemporary Journals Accounts Reports And Rosters Of Members Of The Ten Handcart Companies With Plates
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Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Handcarts To Zion The Story Of A Unique Western Migration 1856 1860 With Contemporary Journals Accounts Reports And Rosters Of Members Of The Ten Handcart Companies With Plates written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
The Gathering Of Zion
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Author : Wallace Earle Stegner
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1964-01-01
The Gathering Of Zion written by Wallace Earle Stegner and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964-01-01 with History categories.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death—but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon Country, Recapitulation, Second Growth, and Women on the Wall.