Devil's Gate Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy Paleoseismic Studies Salt Lake City

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Devil's Gate Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy Paleoseismic Studies Salt Lake CityThe 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