Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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.
Handcarts to Zion
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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.
Handcarts to Zion, the story of a unique western migration
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Handcarts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Handcarts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion. The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860. With Contemporary Journals, Accounts, Reports, and Rosters of Members of the Ten Handcart Companies. [With Plates.].
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion, 1856-1860
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN: 9780870620270
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN: 9780870620270
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion
Author: LeRoy R. Hafen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion
Author: LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion
Author: Leroy Reuben Hafen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258502409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Story Of A Unique Western Migration 1856-1860. With Contemporary Journals, Accounts, Reports And Rosters Of Members Of The Ten Handcart Companies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258502409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Story Of A Unique Western Migration 1856-1860. With Contemporary Journals, Accounts, Reports And Rosters Of Members Of The Ten Handcart Companies.
True Sisters
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250005027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250005027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.
Pulling Their Weight
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormon handcart companies
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, as part of its Sesquicentennial celebration with the Faith in Every Footstep campaign, presents information about Mormon Handcart Pioneers migrating to the Salt Lake Valley area of Utah primarily in the 1850s and 1860s.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormon handcart companies
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, as part of its Sesquicentennial celebration with the Faith in Every Footstep campaign, presents information about Mormon Handcart Pioneers migrating to the Salt Lake Valley area of Utah primarily in the 1850s and 1860s.