Devil's Gate Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy Paleoseismic Studies Big Cottonwood

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It then follows with a descriptive trail guide for each major trail system

Devil's Gate Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy Paleoseismic Studies Big CottonwoodThe revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrationsand how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. Dramatic re telling of a terrible but little known tragedy: In 1856, 220 Mormons traveling west to Utah, pushing and pulling their belongings in handcarts, died of malnutrition and hypothermia. Roberts draws on contemporary letters and diaries to re create the drama and