Cloy Kent painting of handcart family, which hangs in Iowa City 4th Ward meetinghouse, is prominent in the city's promotion of handcart sesquicentennial observance, one of two celebrations that occurred in June 2006. Photo courtesy Iowa City Handcart Sesquicentennial Committee

Morman Handcart Expedition

The Handcart Expeditions of 1856 

by Char Hixon