OMAHA (AP) - Job growth in May hit a 10-year high for the Midwest, according to a regional economic survey. 5 to 5:30 p.m. - Tony Clapier: original handcart and handcart construction at main stage. 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though relatively few Latter-Day Saint pioneers crossed the overland Trail with a handcart, those handcart pioneers have become representative of the entire pioneer trail experience. The experiences ...

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 ...

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 ...

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