KEARNEY - What better way to understand the trials of pioneers than by trying it out ourselves, asks an organizer of the 150th Anniversary of the Handcart Pioneers.Anyone who wants to learn what it ...

KEARNEY - The trip across Nebraska for the pioneers pushing handcarts was generally filled with hardships, but the 150th anniversary celebration in Kearney June 2 and 3 should be filled with fun.

“What project are you working on?” the friendly craft store cashier asked as she rang up my purchase of 1½ yards of sturdy, checkered canvas. My daughter Lucy and I looked at each other, unsure how to ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley praised the courage and determination of the handcart pioneers Sunday, saying their trek from Iowa to Utah 150 years also serves as a ...

The trek starts at Sixth Crossing — a pioneer crossing point on the Sweetwater River in south-central Wyoming — and snakes its way over a hilly landscape. It climbs the jagged limestone of Rocky Ridge ...

About 80 teenagers and 20 adults from southeast Louisiana took part in a handcart trek Feb. 10-13, experiencing “in some measure the sacrifice, hardship, endurance, forgiveness, faith and testimony ...

Between 1856 and 1860 nearly 3,000 Latter-day Saint emigrants joined 10 handcart companies to make the trek from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. The journey included about 650 handcarts each ...