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 ...

Scores of young people from western Nevada County pressed against heavy handcarts along country in a recent re-enactment of the arrival of the original Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. They ...

KEARNEY - The trip across Nebraska for the pioneers pushing handcarts was generally filled with hardships, but the 150th anniversary celebration in Kearney June 2 and 3 should be filled with fun.

The handcart trek is a way to make pioneer and Mormon history come alive for the participants. The theme of this year’s trek: Bearing our load in the strength of the Lord. “It’s a commemoration of ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Amy Dawson knows it's impossible to appreciate the difficulty, risks and sacrifice her Mormon ancestors made 150 years ago when they hiked 1,300 miles across the Great Plains ...

A Feb. 24 story told about the Mormon Pioneer Trail to the Great Salt Lake basin can be found at the Trail Center near Omaha, Neb.

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 - Amy Dawson knows it's impossible to appreciate the difficulty, risks and sacrifice her Mormon ancestors made 150 years ago when they hiked 1,300 miles across the Great Plains to ...