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The Mormon Handcart Migration - Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow (Hardcover, First Edition, New ed.)
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The Mormon Handcart Migration - Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow (Hardcover, First Edition, New ed.)
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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.
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