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


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