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Handcart Pioneer Monument


The Handcart Pioneer Monument is a
tribute to the thousands of hardy Mormon
pioneers who, because they could not
afford the larger ox-drawn wagons, walked
across the rugged plains in the 1850s,
pulling and pushing all of their possessions
in handmade, all-wood handcarts.

Some 250 died on the journey, but nearly
3.000, mostly British converts, completed
the 1,350-mile trek from Iowa City, Iowa, to
the Salt Lake Valley. Many Latter-day Saints
today proudly recount the trials and the
triumphs of their ancestors who were among
the Mormon handcart pioneers.

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