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.
Handcarts to Zion
Handcarts to Zion - 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 Handcarts to Zion write by LeRoy Reuben Hafen. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Handcarts to Zion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
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.
True Sisters
True Sisters - 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 True Sisters write by Sandra Dallas. This book was released on 2012-04-24. True Sisters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.
The Gathering of Zion
The Gathering of Zion - 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 Gathering of Zion write by Wallace Earle Stegner. This book was released on 1964-01-01. The Gathering of Zion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
