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.

There was a tragic end to a re-enactment of a pioneer trek in central Utah this morning. A 14-year-old girl was killed, as was a man well known in Emery County for keeping the pioneer spirit alive.

Not counting the Willie and Martin companies, pioneers who traveled by handcart experienced a 4.7 percent mortality rate. “If you take out the Willie and Martin handcart company and look at the ...