Emigrating Journals of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and the Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emigrating Journals of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and the Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains write by . This book was released on 1996. Emigrating Journals of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and the Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The James G. Willie & Edward Martin Handcart Companies were the last to emigrate to Utah in 1856. After leaving Liverpool, England, with such high hopes to make it in the Salt Lake Valley, they ran into snow storms, starvation & death in the foothills of the Wind River mountains in Wyoming. They were finally rescued, but not before over 200 perished of exhaustion, starvation & freezing to death. Included are the Hunt & Hodgett Wagon Trains as they followed the Martin Handcart company & experienced much of the same cold, hunger & freezing. The book is 6 X 9 hardcover, 230 pages, indexed & includes the daily emigrating journals of all four companies, genealogical information including birth, marriage & death dates of most of the emigrants, & several histories. Photographs of historical sites, including Mississippi, Platte, Sweetwater, Green & Bear Rivers, & Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Rocky Ridge, Rock Creek & others. To order call or write, Lynne S. Turner, 1871 Condie Drive, Taylorsville, UT 84119-5501. 801-969-2278.
Devil's Gate
Devil's Gate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devil's Gate write by David Roberts. This book was released on 2008. Devil's Gate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Mormon Handcart Migration
The Mormon Handcart Migration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mormon Handcart Migration write by Candy Moulton. This book was released on 2019-04-25. The Mormon Handcart Migration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Recollections of Past Days
Recollections of Past Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recollections of Past Days write by Sandra Ailey Petree. This book was released on 2006-03-15. Recollections of Past Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life. The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated Martin company, which because of poor planning and a late start west, was caught poorly prepared by severe high plains snowstorms in October and November 1856. The combined fatalities of the Martin and Willie companies made this the worst disaster in the history of overland travel. Patience's father was one of those who died. After reaching Utah, Patience took the unusual step for a Mormon of marrying a soldier, John Rozsa, stationed at Camp Floyd. The troops there had made up the Utah Expedition, sent to ensure federal authority over the Mormons. Rozsa was a Hungarian immigrant and Mormon convert. When the Utah troops were recalled for the Civil War, Patience accompanied her husband, as an army laundress, to Washington, D.C., running a boarding house while Rozsa fought. After the war, he died at Fort Leavenworth of consumption, and Patience returned alone to Utah, where she became a cook at a mining camp in American Fork Canyon. Her autobiography ends there in 1872, though she lived till 1922.
From the Outside Looking In
From the Outside Looking In - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Outside Looking In write by Reid L. Neilson. This book was released on 2016. From the Outside Looking In available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association. Approaching Mormon history from a variety of angles, such as gender, identity creation, American imperialism, and globalization, these scholars, all experts in their fields but new to the study of Mormon history itself, ask intriguing questions about Mormonism's past and future and analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways.
