Handcarts to Zion. The Story of a Unique Western Migration 1856-1860
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(MORMONS). HAFEN, LeRoy R. and HAFEN, Ann W. 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. Spokane, Wash.: The Arthur H. Clark Co., [1960]; reprinted, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, [1992]. Illus. map. 328pp. A very fine copy in orig. cloth, d/j. The mass migration of the Mormon Handcart Companies was the most remarkable travel experiment in the history of the West. Much of this account, considered a classic in Mormon literature, is in the words of the handcart pioneers. Here is the story of 3,000 souls, from babes to the aged, and how they pulled their worldly possessions and fervent hopes across 1,300 miles of desert, prairie and mountain to Zion.
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