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The Mormon handcart migration : "tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow" / Candy Moulton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moulton, Candy Vyvey, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- James G. Willie Emigrating Company.
- Edward Martin Emigrating Company.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--19th century.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saint handcart companies.
- Latter Day Saint pioneers.
- Latter Day Saint churches--History--19th century.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Calling the faithful
- Casting lots with God
- "Our hearts were cheered"
- The overland journey begins, 1856
- The fourth company: the Willie Company, 1856
- The fifth company: the Martin Company, 1856
- "Go and bring in those people"
- "They are angels from heaven"
- "I will not have such late starts"
- Facing the devil
- The sixth and seventh companies, 1857
- Conditions at flash point
- The eighth company: resuming the migration, 1859
- The final companies, 1860
- Epilogue: "a day of reckoning in the future"
- Coda: legacy of the handcarts
- Appendix: company rosters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806162614
- 0806162619
- OCLC:
- 1050143071
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