Isabel Fisher's trek family (from left: Seamus Smith, Matthew Sandmaier, Dale Ruttan, Angela Ruttan, Amy Smith, Sean Terry, Isabel Fisher, Shaena Leavitt, Micah Rojas) poses for a photo during their ...

About 80 teenagers and 20 adults from southeast Louisiana took part in a handcart trek Feb. 10-13, experiencing “in some measure the sacrifice, hardship, endurance, forgiveness, faith and testimony ...

SWEETWATER STATION, Wyo. (AP) -- The wagon wheel ruts are still visible in places. Even after 150 years, they mark the toiled struggles of thousands of pioneers who settled the West. And while they ...

SWEETWATER STATION - The wagon wheel ruts are still visible in places. Even after 150 years, they mark the toiled struggles of thousands of pioneers who settled the West. And while they are well off ...

The handcart trek is a way to make pioneer and Mormon history come alive for the participants. The theme of this year’s trek: Bearing our load in the strength of the Lord. “It’s a commemoration of ...

OAK GLEN >> More than 200 teens from the Rancho Cucamonga and La Verne stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently re-enacted the westward trek of their pioneer ancestors, ...

In the years 1856-1860, a series of 10 companies of Mormon handcart pioneers embarked from Iowa City to cross the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Great Salt Lake Valley. The handcarts were ...

KEARNEY - The trip across Nebraska for the pioneers pushing handcarts was generally filled with hardships, but the 150th anniversary celebration in Kearney June 2 and 3 should be filled with fun.

KIMBERLY — Hundreds of teenagers will push and pull handcarts this week as they walk in the footsteps of pioneers. It will be a “handcart trek” accompanied by fun and laughter, but with a sober tone ...

Mormon teens forsake cellphones, iPads, makeup and video games, don long dresses, aprons and bonnets or pants with suspenders, and set out on a grueling, exhausting, heat-smacking three-day wilderness ...

SWEETWATER STATION, Wyo. — The wagon wheel ruts are still visible in places, even after 150 years. They mark the struggles of thousands of pioneers who settled the West. Although they are well off ...