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The Martin and Willie Handcart Companies & Their Rescuers
Biographical sketches of the rescuers of the Martin and Willie handcart companies of 1856, and of a few of the members of the company, with photographs of their grave markers, and instructions to the cemeteries in which they were buried.
The Price We Paid
"Provides the most comprehensive and accessible account of these pioneers' epic 1856 journey--all the way from Liverpool to the Salt Lake Valley"--Provided by publisher.
Sweetwater Rescue
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The Second Rescue
In 1856. President Brigham Young sent rescue teams to the aid of more than a thousand pioneers who were stranded in winter storms on the plains. Little did anyone know then of the need those faithful Saints would have for a Second Rescue-a spiritual rescue that would begin 135 years later. In 1987, the saints of the Riverton Wyoming Stake embarked on a sacred trek of their own, a journey filled with miracles and laden with spiritual blessings. The Second Rescue is the story of that journey. It tells of faithful people working together to provide temple blessings of the Willie and Martin handcart pioneers and for their immediate families. It chronicles their trials and triumphs in their efforts to build monuments and pave the way for others to experience the sacred sites associated with the handcart prioneers.
Remember the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and Their Rescuers - Past and Present
The "Second recue" refers to a spiritual rescue (proxy LDS temple work was done for LDS members of the company) and the creation of monuments and a visitors center to rescue the memory of historic individuals and events.
The Second Rescue
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Fire of the Covenant
In the summer of 1856, three companies of handcarts were outfitted and sent west from Iowa to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. All went well, and they arrived without undue incident. But two additional companies - one captained by James G. Willie, and the other by Edward Martin - left England late in the season. Whey they arrived at Iowa City, they were long past the time for safe departure across the plains. By the time they left Florence, Nebraska, with still more than a thousand miles to go, it was near the end of August. As if that were not serious enough, President Brigham Young thought that the arrival of the third company ended the migration for that season and ordered the resupply wagons back to Salt Lake. Fire of the Covenant is the story of those handcart pioneers and their exodus to the Salt Lake Valley. Author Gerald N. Lund has used the same techniques present in The Work and the Glory series to blend fictional characters into the tapestry of actual historical events, making this a story filled with all the elements of great drama - tragedy, triumph, pathos, courage, sacrifice, surrender and faith.
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...
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.
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.
