Tag Archive: covered wagon
In The Wagon
Pioneer Wagon Craft
I made this fun craft printable from an idea one of my children brought home from school. Basically, it is a covered wagon (viewed from the rear) with a hole in the middle that shows scenes the pioneers may have seen while traveling from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake. You turn the wheel, and you’ll follow the journey across rivers, through the plains, in the heat and rain, over the…
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Covered Wagon – line art
Mary Fielding and Joseph F Smith Crossing the Plains by Glen S Hopkinson
Mary Fielding Smith was left a widow when her husband, Hyrum, was killed with his brother the Prophet Joseph. She had to care for not only her own large family but also several other helpless or ill people. Hyrum and Mary’s son, Joseph F. Smith, who would later become the sixth President of the Church, was only five years old at the time. Mary and her family left Nauvoo in…
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