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Handcart Companies[edit edit source]
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Between 1856 and 1860 nearly 3,000 emigrants from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined ten handcart companies--about 650 handcarts total--and walked to Utah from Iowa City, Iowa, (a distance of 1,300 miles) or from Florence, Nebraska (1,030 miles). Among these courageous handcart pioneers were cobblers, factory workers, farmers, fisherman, and aristocrats. Swiss, Danish, Scottish, Norwegian, Welsh, and English immigrants; they often didn’t share the same language. However they did share the same desire, to reach the Rocky Mountains and live among the members of their newfound church. This was, according to historian LeRoy Hafen, 'the most remarkable travel experiment in the history of Western America.' [1][2] See also Mormon Trail and Latter-day Saint Emigration and Immigration.
Poker hand nicknames. The following sets of playing cards can be referred to by the corresponding names in card games that include sets of three or more cards, particularly 3 and 5 card draw, Texas Hold 'em and Omaha Hold 'em. The nicknames would often be used by players when revealing their hands, or by spectators and commentators watching the. Hands on Training. Hand to Gland Combat. Having a Roy (Australian) Have it Off. Have One Off the Wrist. Hitchhike Under the Big Top. Hitching to Heaven. Holding All The Cards. Holding Your Sausage Hostage. Ironing Some Wrinkles.
Many families have a tradition that their ancestry came to Utah in a handcart company. These and others came overland between 1847 and 1868.
| Handcart Company | Captain | Left Florence | Individuals | Died en route | Arrived Salt Lake City |
| First | Edmund Ellsworth | 20 Jul 1856 | 274 | 13 | 26 Sep 1856 |
| Second | Daniel D. McArthur | 24 Jul 1856 | 221 | 7 | 26 Sep 1856 |
| Third (Welsh) | Edward Bunker | 30 Jul 1856 | 320 | < 7 | 2 Oct 1856 |
| Fourth/Willie | James G. Willie | 17 Aug 1856 | ~404 | 68 | 9 Nov 1856 |
| Fifth/Martin | Edward Martin | 27 Aug 1856 | 576 | >145 | 30 Nov 1856 |
| Sixth | Israel Evans | 20 Jun 1857 | 149 | (0) | 11 Sep 1857 |
| Seventh Scandinavian | Christian Christiansen | 15 Jul 1857 | ~330 | ~6 | 13 Sep 1857 |
| Eighth | George Rowley | 9 Jun 1859 | 235 | ~5 | 4 Sep 1859 |
| Ninth | Daniel Robison | 6 Jun 1860 | 233 | 1 | 27 Aug 1860 |
| Tenth | Oscar O. Stoddard | 6 Jul 1860 | 124 | 0 | 24 Sep 1860 |
Histories[edit edit source]
- Jolene S. Allphin. Tell my story, too : a collection of biographical sketches of pioneers and rescuers of the Willie, Martin, Hodget, and Hunt Companies of 1856.[S.l. : Tell My Story Pub., [c2001] 2009 FHL 979.2 W2ajs]
Google Books[edit edit source]
- Handcarts to Zion[3]
- The Rocky Mountain Saints[4]
Big Hand Nicknames
Articles[edit edit source]
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References[edit edit source]
- ↑ LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen, Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860 (1960);
- ↑Wallace Stegner, The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail (1964).
- ↑Le Roy Reuben Hafen, Ann W. Hafen, Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860 (1960)
- ↑Thomas B. H. Stenhouse The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young...and the Development of the Great Mineral Wealth of the Territory of Utah Published by D. Appleton and company, 1873, 761 pages