The Mormon handcart expeditions were the “most deadly (chapter) in the history of westward migration in the United States,” David Roberts says in “Devil’s Gate.” Nearly 250 of the 900 ...

Once viewed as a dark chapter in Mormon history, handcart treks have become a booming spiritual enterprise, re-enacted not only here on the original route but also in Mormon communities as distant ...

The Mormon Trail came into existence when Brigham ... The Willie Company was the forth handcart com-pany to leave Iowa City. Five hundred people and 120 handcarts began the journey on July 15.

At the same time, the Days of ’47 organization told 2News it’s working on a new “world class monument” to pioneer children who lost their lives on the Mormon Trail from 1847-1869.

SCHWEIZER: The 1856 handcart disaster has become an enduring symbol of faith and sacrifice. It's in memory of those ancestors who risked so much for their faith that Mormon teens retrace their ...

The monument, entitled Pioneers of 1847 Monument, honors the lives of Black pioneers who took part in the Mormon migration and the settlement of Utah, according to a news release from This Is the ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man following in the footsteps of the Mormon handcart pioneers has made it back home. Pulling his 1850s-style handcart, Lynn "Doc" Cleland ended his journey Saturday at ...