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Latter Day Saint handcart companies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315589]
Identifier: MSS SC 1770
Scope and Contents

Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.

Dates: 1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley

Brigham Young speech

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489630]
Identifier: MSS 573
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten copy of a speech given on 22 April 1856 in Emigration Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah. The speech was recorded by J. N. Long. Young urges immigrants to walk to Utah as much as possible because that mode of transportation was faster than by wagon. This was probably an attempt to get support for handcart immigration. He also talks about taking precautions to protect the pioneers against Indians.

Dates: 1856 April 22
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young speech

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