SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man is catching the vision of the Mormon handcart pioneers. He's reenacting the trek to the Salt Lake Valley all the way from Iowa City. Following in the footsteps of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man following in the footsteps of the Mormon handcart pioneers has made it back home. Pulling his 1850s-style handcart, Lynn "Doc" Cleland ended his journey Saturday at ...

Nearly 250 of the 900 members of the Martin and Willie handcart companies, which were caught in brutal blizzards in the Wyoming and Utah mountains ... and broke as the pioneers pushed them across ...

KEARNEY - Margaret Ann Griffiths was 16 years old when she pushed a handcart ... Pioneers June 2 and 3 in Kearney. Malena counted 32 ancestors who traveled the Mormon Trail. Most went to Utah ...

Between 1856 and 1860 nearly 3,000 Latter-day Saint emigrants joined 10 handcart companies to make the trek from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. The journey included about 650 handcarts ...

They were the handcart pioneers of sport here in Utah, and without them, who knows what the city would be today.

thus including the different pioneer groups who came to Utah overland during the pioneer era. The view of the wagon/handcart is looking backward, while moving forward. This suggests that as we ...

Russ Nelson pulls a handcart ... city's Pioneer Day celebration on Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Mapleton. July 24 is just another day for most of America, but for those who live in Utah, it ...

While traveling across the plains, members of the Martin Handcart ... Latter-day Saint pioneers trekking into the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. It is a state holiday in Utah, but it is ...