While the Martin and Willie Handcart Companies are commonly recognized for their harrowing journey across the American plains during the mid-19th century, other, lesser-known handcart companies also ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man is catching the vision of the Mormon handcart pioneers. He's reenacting the trek to the Salt Lake Valley all the way from Iowa City. Following in the footsteps of the ...

Brigham Young University’s BYU Studies has created a day-by-day Web chronology of the Willie Handcart Company's’ trek to the Great Salt Lake Valley in honor of the sesquicentennial of their voyage.

In the years 1856-1860, a series of 10 companies of Mormon handcart pioneers embarked from Iowa City to cross the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Great Salt Lake Valley. The handcarts were ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Sweetwater Rescue The Willie and Martin Handcart Story' on any device? Here are ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can find the right ...

VERNON - Powerful, relentless winds whipped petticoats, sent straw hats hurling into the brush and obliterated the shouts of members of the Hicken Handcart Company as each family strained to push the ...

“What project are you working on?” the friendly craft store cashier asked as she rang up my purchase of 1½ yards of sturdy, checkered canvas. My daughter Lucy and I looked at each other, unsure how to ...

Walking in Obedience contains dramatic scenes and incredible scenery depicting the journey of a Danish family traveling with the Willie Handcart Company. It is told through the words of those that ...

Why would 187 youth of this area’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints take a week of this valuable summer for the honor of a few days’ worth of pushing and pulling handcarts through miles of ...

KEARNEY - What better way to understand the trials of pioneers than by trying it out ourselves, asks an organizer of the 150th Anniversary of the Handcart Pioneers.Anyone who wants to learn what it ...