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Martin Handcart Company – Bitter Creek, Wyoming, 1856 by Clark Kelley Price
The Martin Handcart Company was the fifth handcart company to travel west to the Salt Lake Valley. This company of English emigrants left Iowa City, Iowa, on 28 July 1856. There were “576 [people], with 146 carts, 7 wagons, 30 oxen, and 50 cows and beef cattle” (LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen, Handcarts to Zion [1960], 93). At Florence, Nebraska, they stopped for handcart repairs. It was late…
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LDS.org’s Guide to planning an LDS Handcart Trek
Jenny Smith
Planning a Successful Youth Conference or Handcart Trek
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