“Tongue nor pen can ever tell the sorrow,” says a heartbreaking film on the tragic 1856 Mormon handcart disaster at the Handcart Historic Site near Rawlins, Wyoming operated by the Mormon Church. When Mormons fled Illinois in 1844 after the murder of their founder, Joseph Smith, they were brought west by new prophet Brigham Young, who founded Salt Lake City in Utah Territory. He promised an opportunity to build a wonderful new life without religious persecution. At first, converts came by wa
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