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Journal Article

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Bagley, Will

"One Long Funeral March" : A Revisionist's View of the Mormon Handcart Disasters

Journal of Mormon History

Winter 2009

35

no.1

Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

2009

50-115

Bagley examines the trying financial circumstances that led to the LDS Church using handcarts as a means of transporting immigrants in 1856-1860. Confusion over leadership, mismanagement, late starts, underfunding and supplying, and bad weather spelled inevitable trouble for the handcart companies, particularly for the Martin and Willie Companies.

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