Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860. With contemporary journals, accounts, reports; and rosters of members of the ten Handcart Companies
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1969. Second printing. 328pp. Octavo [24.5] Green cloth with the title and bands gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Former owner stamp on the front free endsheet. Item #10365
Fourteenth volume in the well-received series 'Far West and the Rockies.' Actuated by a religious motive, some 3,000 poor Mormons trudged 1300 miles to their Zion, pulling their meager possessions in two-wheeled carts. Most of the ten companies traveled as fast as ox trains, and with little more suffering; but two met with terrible tragedy. The handcart migration was the most remarkable experiment in the history of Western overland travel. Clark/Brunet 118.
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