Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie and Martin Handcart Story by Lee Groberg, Heidi S. Swinton

Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie and Martin Handcart Story

Lee Groberg, Heidi S. Swinton

136 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history religion adventurous emotional informative fast-paced

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In 1856, two emigrant handcart companies and two wagon trains were caught in the October snows of Wyoming. They left too late from England in their 6,000 mile journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Nearly one fifth of these 1200 pioneers perished in the...

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