It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing Handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake.
Some of the weary.
Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood.
Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith.
It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing Handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake