In 1856, two groups of Mormon emigrants using handcarts to transport their belongings got a disastrously late start on their westward trek to Utah. Unexpected October blizzards and the lack of ...

KEARNEY - The trip across Nebraska for the pioneers pushing handcarts was generally filled with hardships, but the 150th anniversary celebration in Kearney June 2 and 3 should be filled with fun.

Scores of young people from western Nevada County pressed against heavy handcarts along country in a recent re-enactment of the arrival of the original Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. They ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley praised the courage and determination of the handcart pioneers Sunday, saying their trek from Iowa to Utah 150 years also serves as a ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Amy Dawson knows it's impossible to appreciate the difficulty, risks and sacrifice her Mormon ancestors made 150 years ago when they hiked 1,300 miles across the Great Plains ...

When a devout flock of Mormon pioneers set out on foot in 1846, they embarked on an involuntary 3,000-mile trek through snow and mud after the violent death of their leader and under threat of an ...

The original Mormon trail extended 1,300 miles over five states, beginning in Nauvoo, Ill., and traversing Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and into Utah. Faced with religious and political violence in ...

About 80 teenagers and 20 adults from southeast Louisiana took part in a handcart trek Feb. 10-13, experiencing “in some measure the sacrifice, hardship, endurance, forgiveness, faith and testimony ...

In June, youth and adults from this area trekked 43 miles in three days across the rugged landscape of Wyoming, re-enacting a pioneer saga of endurance and faith that has become a deep touchstone for ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Amy Dawson knows it's impossible to appreciate the difficulty, risks and sacrifice her Mormon ancestors made 150 years ago when they hiked 1,300 miles across the Great Plains to ...