They began using
handcarts, thus initiating a five-year experiment that has become a legend in the annals of Mormon and North American migration.
By 1860, five additional
handcart companies had made the trip, with major changes made as a result of the painful lessons learned from the Sweetwater event, significant in Mormon history.
The
handcart groups started their journey in Iowa City - the western reach of the railroad in 1856, and walked 1,300 miles to Utah, where the rapidly growing Mormon church had established several settlements.
A vulnerable population pushing their belongings 1,300 miles across a wilderness utterly foreign to them: the
handcart pioneers depended enormously on luck.
He used to park his
handcart on a service road in Sector G-9, where a number of government offices are located.
The more than 50 operators picked the driver at his place of work and tried to take him to the Narok County Referral Hospital using a
handcart but police intervened.
Sources told The Frontier Post that the explosives were planted on a
handcart which were remotely detonated at the main crossing gate of the Torkham border in Khyber tribal region.
Shafique Nang claimed the Taliban had given the children a
handcart to take it to Ghazni City.
WHEN these showmen go on the road they do it literally - pushing everything they need in a
handcart.
Families behind with their rent and under threat of eviction would disappear in the depths of night, their possessions on a
handcart or in the back of a van.
I wonder if any of your good readers out there would be willing to lend me a
handcart for a few days?
The poor can start life without Sure Start, Schools shouldn't give out free meals, We can all go to hell in a
handcart, If we hadn't just sold off the wheels!
In short, we're going to financial hell in a
handcart that could be repossessed at any moment.
Cold weather, the sparkle of Christmas having faded, credit card bills, winter flu and New Year's resolutions that have gone to hell in a
handcart all make January the 19th the most depressing day of the year, say experts.
Education Secretary Alan Johnson said: "I don't accept the views of those who seek to portray our nation and its children as well on its way to hell in a
handcart."