The story of the Mormon Handcarts is normally told as a tragedy. How two parties of foreign converts were caught in the winter storms between Iowa City, Iowa and Salt Lake City, Utah. Many perished. And that painful story is all true. But what's also true is that between 1856 and 1860, ten handcart companies reached Salt Lake City. Brigham Young had conceived of the handcart migration when he realized many of the foreigners—German, Welsh, English, Danish, Swedish and Scottish—were too poor t

December 2015
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- Western Events for December 2015
- I’m Just Joshin’ Ya!
- To Cure Cancer
- The Hashknife Outfit
- Cold Heart, Just Rewards
- The Missouri Kid
- Surviving a Stagecoach Robbery
- Meeting Billy the Kid
- Tombstone’s Religious Side
- House Calls Without A Horse or Buggy
- The Highest Peak
- The Red Sash Gang
- The Man Who Swallowed a Wagon Wheel
- How was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
- Tombstone’s Competitor
- Native Americans in Movies
- The Original War Wagon
- The Maxwell Brothers
- Hang on These Words
- Following Red Cloud
- Billy Hutchinson’s Bird Cage Theater
- Gotta Know the Lingo
- Teddy’s Roughest Riders
- The Nude Duel that Will Not Die
- Fred Waite and the Lincoln County War
- The Youngers Visit Madelia
- You Slapped Wyatt Earp and Lived to Tell?
- River Captain’s Hotel
- Charlie Bowdre’s Blood Stained Photo
- Flint Hills Folklorist Jim Hoy
- Herding with the Wind
- Bob Dalton’s Gang
- Were Indian War soldiers ordered to crush empty shell casings so Indians could not reload them?
- A Brilliant But Doomed Mission
- William Wilson’s Hanging
- Wild Bill’s Paranoia
- The Reluctant Hero
- Hugh Glass’s Deadly Journey
- Antics at the Bird Cage Theater
- Nature’s Complexion
- Seats of Luxury
- What’s in a Name?
- The Bird Cage Theater
- What happened to Pancho Villa’s henchman Rodolfo Fierro?
- Spirit of the Prairie Celebrated
- Sure Cure for Flinchlock Fever
- Tragedy on the Southern Plains
- The Human Custer
- The First Boom Stick
- When Life Imitates Art
- Ken Western
- The First Mountain Man
- Seven Still Magnificent
- How was Morgan Earp killed?
- A Compelling Argument
- The Outlaw Davy Crockett
- Mysterious Dave and the Preacher
- Arizona’s Mail Order Brides
- Burning The Candle At One End
- The Merchant of Death?
- Cowboy Capital of the World
- The Fairbank Train Robbery
- Wild, Wild West
- Handcart Pioneers
- Jesse James’s Publicity Agent
- Epitaph for the Living and the Dead
- What were Old West jails like?
- Watch the Cup, Please
- My Name is Custer: We are Many
- Rockin’ It On The Navajo Trail
- Ghost Dance Tragedy
- Pat Garrett’s Ghostwriter
- The Great Menken
- Treasures of the Black Range
- Townful of Santas
- Life in Tombstone
- Supreme Cowgirl
- Thank You, Sarah Jane Woodson