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- Title: Mormon Handcart Treks
- Description: The Mormon Exodus of 1846-47 to Utah Territory was only the beginning of emigrant travel on the overland route or the Mormon Trail to Utah. Thousands of converts followed in succeeding years. Besides religious freedom, moving to Zion offered the hope and opportunity of economic freedom, especially for displaced and poverty-stricken victims of Europe’s industrial revolution. Almost 4,400 converts arrived in the United States during the winter 1855-56. They landed at New York and went by train to Iowa City, Iowa. The first three handcart “companies” of 1856 made it to Salt Lake without major incident. They paralleled the Missouri River from Iowa City to Florence, Nebraska; from there they followed the Platte and North Platte Rivers into Wyoming Territory to Fort Laramie. They continued on the “river road” following the Sweetwater to South Pass. From here, they went to Fort Bridger and on to Salt Lake.
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- Added: Feb 18, 2018
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