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.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Amy Dawson knows it's impossible to appreciate the difficulty, risks and sacrifice her Mormon ancestors made 150 years ago when they hiked 1,300 miles across the Great Plains to ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley praised the courage and determination of the handcart pioneers Sunday, saying their trek from Iowa to Utah 150 years also serves as a ...

KEARNEY - What better way to understand the trials of pioneers than by trying it out ourselves, asks an organizer of the 150th Anniversary of the Handcart Pioneers.Anyone who wants to learn what it ...

With 4 ounces of flour and the name of a church pioneer hanging around their necks, area Mormon youths recently walked in the footsteps of their faith. In July, 65 teenagers and 25 adults from the ...

The original Mormon trail extended 1,300 miles over five states, beginning in Nauvoo, Ill., and traversing Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and into Utah. Faced with religious and political violence in ...

Scores of young people from western Nevada County pressed against heavy handcarts along country in a recent re-enactment of the arrival of the original Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. They ...

A Feb. 24 story told about the Mormon Pioneer Trail to the Great Salt Lake basin can be found at the Trail Center near Omaha, Neb.

Patience -- Finding Zion -- The divine handcart plan -- Savage advice -- Troubles on the platte -- Rocky Ridge -- Martin's Cove -- The Mormon Mayflower -- A day of ...