Category: LDS Fiction

It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith. Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood. Some of the weary travelers would finally be welcomed by their brethren in Salt Lake City; others would go to wayside gr...
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So Much of Life Ahead

By: Hughes, Dean

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Deseret Book Company: September 2005

Seller ID: 60662

ISBN: 1590384725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Far from Home (Children of the Promise/Dean Hughes, Vol 3)

By: Hughes, Dean

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Deseret Book Co: September 1998

Seller ID: 62520

ISBN: 1573454060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Children of the Promise, Vol. 1: Rumors of War

By: Hughes, Dean

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Deseret Book Company: May 2005

Seller ID: 62859

ISBN: 1590384458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Children of the Promise, Vol. 3: Far From Home

By: Hughes, Dean

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Deseret Book Company: May 2005

Seller ID: 64265

ISBN: 1590384474

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Children of the Promise, Vol. 2: Since You Went Away

By: Hughes, Dean

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Deseret Book Company: May 2005

Seller ID: 65040

ISBN: 1590384466

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Nephi Was My Friend (Lehi's Dream) (Volume 1)

By: Jonas, Kirby Frank

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Howling Wolf Publishing: September 2015

Seller ID: 94782

ISBN: 1891423150

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fire of the Covenant: A Novel of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies

By: Lund, Gerald N.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Bookcraft: October 1999

Seller ID: 57031

ISBN: 1570086850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the summer of 1856, three companies of handcarts were outfitted and sent west from Iowa to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. All went well, and they arrived without undue incident. But two additional companies - one captained by James G. Willie, and the other by Edward Martin - left England late in the season. Whey they arrived at Iowa City, they were long past the time for safe departure across the plains. By the time they left Florence, Nebraska, with still more than a thousand miles to go, it was near the end of August. As if that were not serious enough, President Brigham Young thought...
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