This rare and unique volume is a compilation of diary entries from the handcart pioneers. In their own words you can experience what it was like to leave their homeland, to pull a handcart day after day with failing strength - to face opposition not just from weather, but from loved ones and apostates trying to turn them back.

Take this book along as you follow the trails they traveled and read their words. Go to Iowa City, Red Buttes, Martin's Cove, Rocky Ridge, and Big Mountain and feel what it was like for them when they passed through the area. Then companies pulled handcarts between 1856-60, and from their diaries we can get a clear and accurate picture of what these pineer forefathers endured for their faith.