With Diaries And Accounts By Sidney Smith, Amos Cook, Joseph Holman, E. Willard Smith, Francis Fletcher, Joseph Williams, Obadiah Oakley, Robert Shortess, T. J. Farnham.

With Diaries, Letters, And Reports By Participants In The Tragedy. Far West And The Rockies Historical Series, 1820-1875, V11.

With Diaries, Letters, And Reports By Participants In The Tragedy. Far West And The Rockies Historical Series, 1820-1875, V11.

The Far West And The Rockies Historical Series, V1, 1820-1875.

Two Volumes In One. With An Annotated Reprint Of His Scenes In The Rocky Mountains And In Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, And The Grand Prairies. The Far West And The Rockies Historical Series, 1820-1875, V4-5.

To California And Return, 1866-1867; And With The Hayden Surveys To The Central Rockies, 1873, And To The Utes And Cliff Dwellings, 1874.

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.

This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.

""In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied by a twenty-five-hundred-member troop under the leadership of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. The secrecy, the size of the military force, and past experiences caused the Mormons to mistakenly believe they were about to be invaded by the federal government. Utah's territorial militia, the Nauvoo Legion, readied itself against the impending invasion until disagreement and disapproval in Washington finally led to successful diplomacy and a reluctant peace.

LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen have brought together the principal official documents pertaining to these singular and nearly tragic events as well as excerpts from the diaries and journals of the central figures, speeches given in Congress and in Utah, and pertinent correspondence.