A: I went to high school in Salt Lake City, and I knew the handcart story. I’ve always been intrigued with the history of Mormon women. I’m not LDS. We Presbyterians used covered wagons ...

Before discussing how Mormons remember the Martin and Willie handcart companies, let me say that the novel is worth reading. Dallas focuses on the lives of some Mormon women pioneers who are ...

Of course, no such "women's pull" happened during pioneer times. Some men did join the Mormon Battalion in 1846 and 1847, but the handcart pioneers did not start crossing the Plains until a decade ...

But only 5 percent of Mormon pioneers made the passage West by handcart, Tolley and his colleagues ... The mortality rate for women was 3.6 percent, compared to 3.3 percent for men.

The would-be pioneers dressed in period costumes. The girls and women ... esque handcart. The inexpensive handcarts, which in many instances were preferred to traveling by wagon for the Mormon ...

Nearly 100 members of the Bismarck Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took part in the trek commemorating the saga of the Mormon "handcart ... of pioneer women, Cox said.

But for more than 100 young men and women from ... On the pioneer trek, youth are required to wear pioneer attire, including long-sleeved shirts, straw hats, bonnets and long skirts. In groups, they ...

About 180 youth members were assigned to one of 20 pioneer families. Each family unit was given a handcart and a baby ... the time when tens of thousands of Mormon pioneers migrated West after ...

A: I went to high school in Salt Lake City, and I knew the handcart story. I’ve always been intrigued with the history of Mormon women. I’m not LDS. We Presbyterians used covered wagons ...