DAVENPORT -- Before they went back to school, a group of about 70 teens went back even further. They slipped back to the mid-1840s and took a three-day "Faith in Every Footstep" Mormon Pioneer Trek, ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a standard crossing-the-Plains narrative: Pioneers traversed the Mississippi River on the ice led by Brigham Young. Everything was well ...

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 ...

As a little girl, 14-year-old Rebecca Skousen often sang the words, "Pioneer children sang as they walked and walked and walked and walked." This past weekend she lived those words. Skousen was one of ...

The trek starts at Sixth Crossing — a pioneer crossing point on the Sweetwater River in south-central Wyoming — and snakes its way over a hilly landscape. It climbs the jagged limestone of Rocky Ridge ...

In the spring of 1847, a large group of Wisconsin pioneers, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, joined with other Latter-day Saints in exodus from Nauvoo, Ill., to the Salt ...

If you happened to be driving through the Francis Marion Forest Thursday, April 4 or the following Friday or Saturday, you may have seen something that made you doubt your eyesight: teenagers dressed ...