Didriksson, Thordur
disfellowshipping:
of Babbitt
of Hickman
in Martin Company
Doniphan, Alexander
Donner Party
Dove, George, Sr.
Downtown Marriott hotel
“Draft Horse, The” (Frost)
Driggs, Howard R.
dropouts, see backouts
Durham, Thomas
dysentery
East Canyon Creek
Echo Canyon
Eddy, Mary Baker
Edwards, Jonathan
Edwards, William
Elder, Joseph
elections of
Ellsworth, Edmund–
as fanatic proponent of handcart travel
official journal and
prescient dream attributed to
Ellsworth, Mary Ann Jones
Ellsworth Company
arrival in Salt Lake City of
deaths in
dropouts from
Florence layover of
McArthur Company’s rivalry with
resupply expedition and
returning missionaries and
supplies and diet of
travel time for
Emigration Canyon
England, see Great Britain
Enoch Train
Erickson, Kersten
Europe, handcart pioneers from
European Mission
European Saints
Evans, Israel
Evans, Priscilla
Evans, Thomas
Evans Company
evolution
excommunication
of Bennett
of Brodie
divorce and
of Laws
of Rigdon
Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism, An (Bennett)
extermination order
family history systems
FamilySearch Center
Far West, Mo.
Faust, James
Ferguson, Phyllis Hardie
“Fifty-four Forty or Fight,”
Fire of the Covenant (Lund)
Fishburn, Robert
Florence, Nebr.
dropouts in
handcart companies’ arrival in
possibility of wintering in
rectangular grid layout of
too-late start from
Ford, Thomas
Fort Bridger
Fort Kearny
Fort Laramie
backouts at
resupplies promised at
Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Fort Seminoe
relief train to
Young’s letter to volunteers at
Forty Years Among the Indians (Jones)
Fourteenth General Epistle
Fowler, Thomas
France
Franklin, T. J.
Franks, Sarah
freight expeditions
Frémont, John C.
Frost, Robert
frostbite
Fullmer, Jane Griffiths
Gadd, Samuel
Galloway, Andrew
Gard, Kristen
Garden of Eden, Mormon view of
Garr, Abel
Gathering of Zion, The (Stegner)
Geary, Brother
Geary, Sophia
genealogy
General Conference
Gentiles
George, the Handcart Boy (Driggs)
George III, King of England
Giles, Aaron
Giles, Thomas
Goble, Caroline
Goble, Edwin
Goble, James
Goble, Mary
Goble, William
golden plates
Grant, Caleb
Grant, David
Grant, George D.:
guards left behind at Devil’s Gate by
in rescue mission
superintendence of handcart building by
Willie Company encouraged to continue by
Grant, George W.
Grant, Jedediah
Greasewood Creek
Great Basin
Great Britain
handcart pioneers from
Mormon missions to
working-class converts to Mormonism in
Great Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake Basin
Great Salt Lake Valley
Greeley, Horace
Green, Caleb
Green River
Griffiths, Herbert
Griffiths, Jane, see Fullmer, Jane Griffiths
Griffiths, John
Griffiths, Margaret
Gunnison, John W.
Gunnison Massacre
Hadley, Elder
Hafen, LeRoy and Ann
Hains, George
Hampton, Ben
Hancock County, Ill.
handcart expeditions
Bond’s condemnation of
cheapness of
deaths on; see also specific companies
difficulties minimized in reports on
divine inspiration attributed to
domino effect attributed to failure of
dropouts from
of 1856; see also specific companies
of 1857
of 1859
of 1860
fatigue and difficulty of
fictional representations of
histories of
Kimball on
lack of reflection on
map of
mismanagement and
monument proposed for dead of
origins of
pride in descent from participants in
reenactment of
resupply expeditions for
as sacred duty
seen as moral test
sentimentalization of
songs written and sung on
supplies and diet of,; see also specific expeditions
Taylor and
theft and pilfering in
travel speed for
Young’s advocacy of
zealous faith in
see also specific companies
Handcart Pioneer, The (Knaphus)
handcarts
abandonment of
breakdowns and repairs of
description of
discomfort of
green wood used in
inadequate supplies of
limited rations portable by
monuments to
as Mormon Mayflower
operation of
replicas of
Savage on
seventeen-pound limit for
shortage of
in Sweetwater crossing
as tourist attraction
as “two-wheeled man-tormentors,”
“Handcart Song, The” (McAllister)
Handcarts to Zion (Hafen and Hafen)
Handcart Veterans Association
Hanks, Ephraim
Hansen, Rasmus
Harper, Elder
Harper, Sister
Harris, Martin
Harrison, George “Beefsteak,”
Hartley, Josephine
Hartley (victim)
Haun’s Mill Massacre
Haven, Jesse
Hay, John
Heart Throbs of the West (K. Carter)
Henderson, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert, Marsha
Hickman, Bill
Higbee, John
Hinckley, Arza Erastus
Hinckley, Gordon B.
Hinkley, Ira
Hirshson, Stanley
History of Utah (Bancroft)
Hodgetts, William B.
Hodgetts wagon company
apostates from
Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition
Holocaust
Horizon
Housley, George
“Hunger and Cold” (Woodmansee)
Hunt, John A.
H
unter, Bishop
hunting
Huntington, C. Allen
Hunt wagon company
apostates from
Hurren, James
Hurren, Mary
Hurt, Garland
Hyde, Orson
hypothermia
Ice Slough
Illinois
Improvement Era
Independence, Mo.
Independence Rock
Indians
Bunker Company and
Danite assassinations of
emigrants’ fear of
Fort Seminoe volunteers saved by
as Lamanites
as lost tribes of Israel
in Mountain Meadows Massacre
pre-Columbian
Young’s fear of
Ingra, George
Instructor
In Their Footsteps of Faith
Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Ireland
handcart emigrants from
Italy
Jackson, Aaron
Jackson, Elizabeth
Jacob, Norton
Jacobsen, Paul
James, Emma
James, Mary Ann
James, Reuben
James, Sarah
James, William
Jaques, Alpha Loader
Jaques, Flora
Jaques, John
on crossing the Sweetwater
daughter lost by
on determining who would walk
diary of
James Loader’s death and
at Millennial Star
Patience’s protests criticized by
PEF debts contested by
reminiscences of
reunion with
wolves kept at bay by
Jaques, Zilpah Loader
pregnancy of
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffrey City, Wyo.
Jennetta, Ether
Jensen, Andrew
Jensen, Anthony
Jensen, Michael
Jesus Christ
Jews
John J. Boyd
Johnson, Eli
Jones, Albert
Jones, Daniel W.
property guarded at Devil’s Gate by
rumors circulating about
Jones, Samuel S.
Kaysville, Utah
Kearny, Stephen Watts
Kimball, David P.
Kimball, Heber C.
handcart parties greeted by
monuments to
Woodward’s letter to
Kimball, Solomon
Kimball, William H.
handcart construction overseen by
return of Willie Company overseen by
Willie party encouraged to continue journey by
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirkwood, James
Kirtland, Ohio
Kirtland Safety Society Bank Company
Knaphus, Torleif S.
Kockles, John
Krakauer, Jon
Kushner, Harold S.
Laman
Lamanites
Lambert, Henry John
Landon, Michael
Lane, Elizabeth
Lapish, Hannah S.
Laramie, Wyo.
Larsen, Lars Julius
Larsen, Line
Larsen, Lloyd
Larson, Gustive
Latey, J. H.
Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide, The (Clayton)
Laty, John
Laurey, John, see Lawley, George
Law, Jane
Law, William
Lawley, George
LDS Archives
Lee, John
Lee, John D.
Lee, William
Lehi
Lehi, Utah
Leonard, Brother
Lewis, C. S.
Liddiard, George
light carriages
Lincoln, Abraham
Little, Feramorz
Liverpool
livestock
Loader, Amy
Loader, Ann
Loader, Eliza
Loader, Harriet King
Loader, James
death of
determination of
devoutness of
and embarrassment of Jaques’s criticism
as emigrant
as gardener
Mormonism chosen over employment by
as overprotective father
weakening state of
wolves kept at bay by
Loader, Jane
Loader, John
Loader, Jonas
Loader, Maria
Loader, Patience
appearance of
background of
broken engagement of
conversion to Mormonism by
on departure from Iowa City
discomfort expressed by
as emigrant
employment of
family unity preserved by
on father’s decline and death
on first days in Salt Lake City
on fording the Platte
on handcart journey
in London
memoir of
method of handcart pushing by
proposals received by
proselytizing by
protests against handcart travel by
religious background of
ship nearly missed by
steadfast Mormonism of
on Sweetwater crossing
Loader, Robert
Loader, Sarah
Loader, Tamar
as handcart passenger
illness of
reunion with
Loader, Zilpah, see Jaques, Zilpah Loader
Loader family:
as Anglicans
childbirth and falling behind by
emigration by
encounter with Indians of
handcart journey of
handcart plan unexpected by
in Iowa City, Iowa
James’s death and
on John J. Boyd
in Martin Company
in New York
westward journey of
London
Lorimer, Heika
Lorimer, Scott
Lowry, Sandra
Loyd, Brother
Lucas, Samuel
Lund, Gerald N.
Lundgren, Steve
McAllister, J. D. T.
McArthur, Daniel
McArthur Company
deaths in
dropouts from
Ellsworth Company’s rivalry with
Florence layover of
resupply expedition and
Salt Lake City arrival of
supplies and diet of
travel time for
McBride, Heber
McBride, Margaret
McBride, Peter
McCleve, John
McCleve, Mary
McConkie, Bruce R.
McKinnon, Kim
Madsen, Ole
Madsen, Peter
Madsen, Susan Arrington
mail carriers
Malcolm X
Marinda, Nancy
marriage, see plural marriage
Marriott, Elizabeth Stewart
Marriott, J. Willard
Marriott, J. Willard, Jr.
Marriott corporate headquarters
Martin, Alice Clayton
Martin, Edward
background of
and Loader childbirth
missing diary of
Martin Company
apostates from
backouts from
baggage reduction by
deaths among
departure of
documentaries about
elderly, infirm, and ill in
fictionalized versions of
fiftieth reunion for
food pilfering in
illness among
Jaques’s reminiscence of
in Martin’s Cove
morning routine of
mythologizing of experiences of
Platte forded by
possibility of wintering in Florence rejected by
postponement discussed by
at Red Buttes
Red Buttes camp of
rescue efforts for
resupplies and
route of
Salt Lake City arrival of