The Mormon Handcart Migration: Tounge Nor Pen Can Never Tell the Sorrow

by Candy Moulton and Candy Vyvey Moulton

Book Overview

In 1856 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints employed a new means of getting converts to Great Salt Lake City who could not afford the journey otherwise. They began using handcarts, thus initiating a five-year experiment that has become a legend in the annals of Mormon and North American migration. Only one in ten Mormon emigrants used handcarts, but of those 3,000 who did between 1856 and 1860, most survived the harrowing journey...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806162619
• ISBN13: 9780806162614
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 9.3"