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• Willie and Martin Handcart Companies
  [[Image: handcart_pioneers_Teichert.jpg|300px|thumb|frame|Depiction of the handcart pioneers by [[Minerva Teichert]]|right]] The tragedy of the '''Willie and Martin handcart companies''' was caused by a series of missteps that cumulatively resulted
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• James G. Willie
  ...handcart pioneers]]. He was known for much of his life as “the Willie of handcart fame.”[https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5712&co Willie was born on November 1, 1814, in Murrell-Green, Hampshire, England. The fam
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• Handcart Companies
  ...Church]], using money from the [[Perpetual Emigration Fund]], established handcart companies, each of which would be accompanied by a small group of wagons wi [[Image:Handcart.jpg|frame|400px|A Monument dedicated to the Mormon handcart pioneers on [[Temple Square]] c2002 Brigham Young University. All rights re
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• Martin's Cove: Mormon Trail Site
  '''The Martin's Cove: Mormon Trail Site''' is home to the Mormon Handcart Visitors’ Center located at [[Martin's Cove]] in Alcova, Wyoming, 55 mile ...sus Christ. Handcarts were more affordable than covered wagons and oxen. [[Handcart Companies]] departed from Iowa traveling by foot and pulling their food sup
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• Sixth Crossing
  ...Sixth Crossing, the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Willie handcart company]] of converts to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of L ...inter.[https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/maps/historic-sites/wyoming/handcart-rescue-landmarks?lang=eng] 
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• Hodgetts and Hunt Wagon Companies
  ...anies’ hardships intertwine with the more well-known [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies]]. Some of the members of the Martin, Hodgetts, and Hunt companie ...or the survivors.[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/handcart-companies?lang=eng]
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• Rock Creek Hollow
  ...ndcart [[Pioneers|pioneers]] in the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Willie and Martin companies]] and the [[Hodgetts and Hunt Wagon Companies|Hodgetts .... Fifteen members of the Willie company are buried in the area. The Martin company met relief wagons east of Rocky Ridge on November 16 and rode in the wagons
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• Martin's Cove
  ...sus Christ. Handcarts were more affordable than covered wagons and oxen. [[Handcart Companies]] departed from Iowa traveling by foot and pulling their food sup ...e handcart companies successfully arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, but two handcart companies left late in the summer and consequently experienced breakdowns d
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• George W. Grant
  ...Companies|Martin Handcart Company]] across the Sweetwater River. While the handcart companies traveled across the plains, the Saints were carried across rivers ...er C. Kimball]]. Captain Grant and his group pressed on to find the Martin Company.
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• Ephraim Hanks
  ...those [[Pioneers|pioneers]] of the Martin [[Handcart Companies|Handcart]] Company during the Western Migration. [[T. C. Christensen]] made a film about him i ...winter weather conditions, word was brought to [[Brigham Young]] that the company was on the plains, and not waiting for Spring weather as he had supposed. Y
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• Edward Martin
  ...artin's Cove]], a place of refuge against the harsh Wyoming winter for his company, was named after him. ...exico. He walked back to Salt Lake with the Hancock, Hunt, Pace, and Lytle company but discovered that his family had not yet arrived. He consequently walked
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• C. Allen Huntington
  ...s|Martin Handcart Company]] across the Sweetwater River in 1856. While the handcart companies traveled across the plains, the Saints were carried across rivers ...oup of men who were dispatched to help the Saints in the Willie and Martin handcart companies and the [[Hodgetts and Hunt Wagon Companies|Hodgetts and Hunt wag
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• Daniel W. Jones
  ...heroically wintered at [[Devil's Gate]] during the rescue of the stranded handcart companies in 1856. ...plains of Wyoming. These were the [[Handcart Companies|Martin and Willie handcart companies]], as well as the [[Hodgetts and Hunt Wagon Companies|Hunt and Ho
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• David P. Kimball
  ...s|Martin Handcart Company]] across the Sweetwater River in 1856. While the handcart companies traveled across the plains, the Saints were carried across rivers ...erence when President [[Brigham Young]] told the Saints about the stranded handcart companies and called for rescuers. David joined with his father to go.
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• MormonWiki Articles
  [[Deseret and Salt Lake Agricultural and Manufacturing Canal Company]] · [[Handcart Companies]] ·
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• Emily H. Woodmansee
  ...across the country with the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Willie Company]]. ...day, October 19, 1856, about noon, howling winter storms caught the Willie Company on one of the most exposed portions of the trail. They were completely out
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• Stephen W. Taylor
  ...p that assisted the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Martin handcart company]]. The account of historian [[John Jaques]] lists Taylor, as well as [[C. A ...Young were not the only ones to assist the members of the Martin handcart company cross the Sweetwater River.[https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent
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• Rocky Ridge
  ...s’ entire journey. Members of the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Willie and Martin companies]] and the [[Hodgetts and Hunt Wagon Companies|Hodgetts ...nce members of a relief party from the Salt Lake Valley reached the Willie Company, entirely out of food, camped on the east side of Rocky Ridge. Many handcar
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• Rising Generation
  ...Crossing, where the [[Willie and Martin Handcart Companies|Willie handcart company]] was rescued in 1856. Rock Creek Hollow is 11 miles off of Highway 28, sou
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• Thomas E. Ricks
  ...He left [[Winter Quarters]] on May 29, 1848, with [[Heber C. Kimball]]’s company. ...nd once in his backbone. His companions, sure he was dead, returned to the company. Learning of his son's demise, Joel Ricks set out to retrieve the body. Joe
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