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From the Outside Looking In
This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association. Approaching Mormon history from a variety of angles, such as gender, identity creation, American imperialism, and globalization, these scholars, all experts in their fields but new to the study of Mormon history itself, ask intriguing questions about Mormonism's past and future and analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways.
Emigrating Journals of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and the Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains
The James G. Willie & Edward Martin Handcart Companies were the last to emigrate to Utah in 1856. After leaving Liverpool, England, with such high hopes to make it in the Salt Lake Valley, they ran into snow storms, starvation & death in the foothills of the Wind River mountains in Wyoming. They were finally rescued, but not before over 200 perished of exhaustion, starvation & freezing to death. Included are the Hunt & Hodgett Wagon Trains as they followed the Martin Handcart company & experienced much of the same cold, hunger & freezing. The book is 6 X 9 hardcover, 230 pages, indexed & includes the daily emigrating journals of all four companies, genealogical information including birth, marriage & death dates of most of the emigrants, & several histories. Photographs of historical sites, including Mississippi, Platte, Sweetwater, Green & Bear Rivers, & Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Rocky Ridge, Rock Creek & others. To order call or write, Lynne S. Turner, 1871 Condie Drive, Taylorsville, UT 84119-5501. 801-969-2278.
Recollections of Past Days
For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life. The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated Martin company, which because of poor planning and a late start west, was caught poorly prepared by severe high...
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Devil's Gate
Traces the tragedy-marked 1856 journey of three thousand Mormons from Iowa to Utah, explaining how leader Brigham Young disregarded warnings and then convinced his followers that hardships and deaths were part of a higher plan.
The Mormon Handcart Migration
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 to settle Utah and become members of a remarkable pioneer generation. Others were not so lucky. More than 200 died along the way, victims of exhaustion, accident, and, for a few, starvation and exposure to late-season Wyoming blizzards. Now, Candy Moulto...
