Second Rescue and
size of
supplies and diet of
survivors of
weather and
Young’s greeting of
Martin’s Cove
Mather, Cotton
Mayo, Mary
Merrill, Elder
Mexican War
Mexico, territories of
Michener, James
Middleton, George W.
Millennial Star
handcart plan publicized in
Jaques at
Patience’s protest criticized in
Millerites
Mills, W. G.
Milton, John
missionaries:
handcarts given to
returning
Mississippi River
Missouri
damages sought from
election-day riot in
extradition order from
Haun’s Hill Massacre in
Smith’s grudge against
violence in
Missouri River
Monson, Thomas
Morgan, Dale
Mormon
final word on 1856 handcarts in
handcart plan announced in
John J. Boyd report in
Mormon Battalion, in Army of the West
Mormon handcart trail, maps of, x–xi
Mormon Handcart Visitors’ Center
Mormon History Association
Mormon militias
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel
Mormon Reformation
doctrine of blood atonement in
Mormons, Mormonism
apostasy from
assertions of superiority by
British mission of
church services of
curiosity about and taunting of
devoutness of
doctrine of
dreams of autonomy by
driven out of Missouri
early days of
English prejudices against
European Mission of
fear of U.S. invasion by
founding of
hostility toward
as most successful homegrown American religion
in Mountain Meadows Massacre
mythologizing of history by
ordinances and “endowments” of
orthodox
paranoia of
plural marriage doctrine among, see plural marriage population of
predicted collapse of
proselytizing by
rebaptism among
rectangular grid layout in settlements of
schisms in
speaking in tongues by
temple ordinances of
tithing among
U.S. invasion feared by
Utah statehood lobbied for by
Mormons, or, Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, The (Gunnison)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Trail
and California gold rush
Moroni
Morris, William
Mortensen, Mettie
Mortinsen, Bodil
Moses
Moulton, Sarah
mountain fever
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Mountain Meadows Massacre, The (Brooks)
mountain men
mules
Museum of Church History
Native Americans, see Indians
Nauvoo, Ill.
Nauvoo Expositor
Nebraska
central
eastern
plains of
sand hills of
south-central
western
Wyoming’s border with
Neff, Andrew
Nephi
New York, N.Y.
Loader family in
New York state, western
Nielsen, Elsie
Nielson, Jens
Nilson, Ella
Nilson, Jens
Nipras, Brother
No Man Knows My History (Brodie)
North Platte River
Oakey, Rhoda R.
Oakley, John
Oborn, John
Ogden, Utah
Ohio
Oldham, John
Oley, John
Ollorton, Alice
Olsen, Andrew D.
Olsen, Anne
Omaha Indians
Openshaw, Eleanor
Openshaw, Eliza
Openshaw, Samuel
Oregon
emigration to
settlers bound for
Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail, The (Parkman)
Orton, Chad M.
Orton, Samuel
Osborn, Daniel
Ott, Alexander
oxen
cost of
Padley, George
Pahvant Utes
Paine, Thomas
Paiute tribe
Palmer, William R.
Palmyra, N.Y.
Parish-Potter murders
Park, Isabella
Parkman, Francis
Parrish, William
Parry, John
Parshall, Ardis
Paul, Earl S.
Pawnee tribe
Peacock, James Alfred
Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF)
Philpot, Sister
Pioneer Camp of the Saints, The (Bullock)
Pioneer Day
Plains Across, The (Unruh)
Platte River
plural marriage
non-Mormon opposition to
official denials of
seen as in opposition to adultery
unwilling wives in
Young’s admission of
pneumonia
Polk, James K.
polygamy, see plural marriage
Potter, Gardner
Prator, Sister
Pratt, Orson
Pratt, Parley P.
Preuss, Charles
Price We Paid, The (Olsen)–
prophetic dreams
Provo, Utah
railroads
Rasmussen, Mettie
rebaptisms
“Reccolections of past days” (Loader)
Red Buttes
Martin Company’s camp at
Reeder, Caroline
Reeder, David
Reeder, Eliza
Reeder, George
Reeder, James
Reeder, Robert
Reformation, Mormon
Register Rock
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Reports (Frémont)
Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies (Bartholomew and Arrington)
Richards, Franklin D.
blame attributed to
and handcart plan
light-carriage return by
resupplies promised by
Richards, Willard
Rigdon, Sidney
Riverton, Wyo.
Roberts, Brigham Henry
Roberts, Eleanor
Roberts, John
Roberts, Robert
Rock Creek Hollow
Rockwell, Orrin Porter
Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rocky Ridge
Rodwell, John
Rogerson, Josiah
Rosing, Brother
Rowley, Ann
Rowley, Eliza
Rowley, John
Sabin, Mary Powell
St. Louis, Mo.
Salt Lake City
and California gold rush
Downtown Marriott hotel in
Ellsworth and McArthur parties greeted by
LDS Archives in
Martin Company’s arrival in
Pioneer Day in
rectangular grid layout of
Temple Square in
as Zion
Salt Lake Daily Herald
Salt Lake
Valley
“Salt Sermon” (Rigdon)
Samson
Sanders, Walter
Savage, Levi
diary of
wintering in Florence recommended by
Scandinavia:
handcart pioneers from
Mormon missions to
working-class converts to Mormonism in
Schindler, Harold
Schlappi, Elder and Sister
Scotland
handcart pioneers from
Mormon missions to
Scott, Joseph
Scott, Sister
Second Rescue
Secret History (Vor Tids Muhamed) (Ahmanson)
Seedsakee National Wildlife Refuge
seer stone
Sermon, Elizabeth
Sermon, Henry
Sermon, John
Sermon, Robert
“She Stood Tall on Her Knees” (Palmer)
Shoshone tribe
Shumway, Brother
signage, apocryphal
Siler, Andrew L.
Simmons, Joseph
Sioux tribe
Sixth Crossing, visitor’s center at
Slack, Brother
Slaughter, William
slavery
Smith, Eliza
Smith, Emma Hale
Smith, Ethan
Smith, George A.
Smith, Hyrum
Smith, Jedediah
Smith, John
Smith, Joseph
appearance of
arrests of
background of
Boggs’s murder and
Book of Mormon and
charisma and eloquence of
colonies founded by
counterfeiting charges against
damages sought from Missouri by
Danites and
despotic absolutism of
excommunications by
final flight of
healing by
in Kirtland
marriage to Emma Hale of
miraculous visitations to
in Missouri
murder of
in Nauvoo
on plural marriage
presidential run of
sincerity or con artistry of
and success of Mormons
tarring and feathering of
teenage character of
title of
as treasure hunter
Zion edict of
Smith, George A.
Smith, Joseph F.
Smith, Lucy
Smith, Sardius
Smith, William
Smoot, Abraham O.
Smoot freight expedition
Snake Indians
Snow, Erastus
snowstorms
Sons of Dan
South Pass
Southwell, John
Southworth, Agnes
Spaulding, Solomon
Spencer, Daniel
blame attributed to
Spencer, Prest
Springville, Utah
Squires, Echo
Squires, Sarah
Staley, Jean-Pierre (Peter Stalle)
starvation
steamboats
Steed, Thomas
Stegner, Wallace
Stenhouse, Fanny
Stenhouse, T. B. H.
Stigall, George
Stoddart, Robert
Stone, Jonathan
Stone, Susannah
Stout, Hosea
Strang, James L.
Strangites
Stuart, Robert
Sutherland, Thomas
Sweetwater Rescue
Sweetwater River
Tabernacle
Tait, Anna F.
Taylor, John
Castle Garden visit of
in handcart campaign
as hero of handcart campaign
as Mormon editor
Taylor, Stephen
Temple
Temple Square
Tennant, Thomas
This Is the Place Heritage Park
Thornton
tithing
Toon, John
Trail of Hope (Slaughter and Landon)
Treasures of Pioneer History (K. Carter)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treseder, Charles
Treseder, Richard
Tune, Captain
Twain, Mark
Twelve Apostles:
excommunications by
Mormon
Tyler, Daniel
typhoid
Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
United States
Mormon determination to leave
Mormon fear of invasion by
southwestern territories gained by
Utah invaded by
Utah territory gained by
war with Mexico of
Unruh, John
Unthank, Nellie Pucell
Unthank, William
Urim and Thummim
Utah
crop failures in
Mormon colony in
Mormon lobbying for statehood for
northern
southeast
southern
state bird of
statehood for
western
Utah Lake
Utah Supreme Court
Utah Territory
federal officials’ flight from
Mormon settlements in
population of
U.S. invasion of
Utah War
Ute Indians
Van Buren, Martin
Van Cott, John
Vasquez, Louis
View of the Hebrews (Smith)
Vor Tids Muhamed (Secret History) (Ahmanson)
Wade, Minerva
Wade, Trish
Wadsworth, Joseph
wagons
cost of
death rates for pioneers in
rescue
supply
Wales
handcart pioneers from
Walker, Henry
Wall, Emily
Wall, Joseph
Walters, Archer
Walters, Henry
Wardell, Hannah
Wardle, Isaac J.
Warsaw, Ill.
Warsaw Dragoons
Washington, D.C.
Washington, George
Wasp
Watkins, John
Webb, Chauncey
Webster, Francis
Wells, Brother
Wendin, Lars
Werner, Morris
West Valley, Utah
Wheelock, Cyrus
Whittier, Elder
Wife No., or the Story of a Life in Bondage (Young)
Wight, Joseph
Williams, Mary
Willie, James G.–
Willie, Sister
Willie Company
apostates from
backouts from
in buffalo stampede
deaths in
diaries among
documentaries about
fictionalized versions of
fiftieth reunion for
mythologizing of experiences of
rescue efforts for
resupplies and
Second Rescue and
supplies and diet of
survivors of
travel time for
winter weather and
Young’s spin on
Willow Creek
Wilson, Mrs.
Winter Quarters
see also Florence, Nebr.
Witbeck, Susan
wolves
women:
death rate among
salvation through marriage of
Woodmansee, Emily Hill
Woodruff, Wilford
Woodward, William
Woolley, Franklin
Worrell, Franklin
Wright, John Pannel
&n
bsp; Wyoming
central
eastern
Nebraska’s border with
plains of
western
Yates, Richard
Young, Ann Eliza
Young, Brigham
appearance of
arrival in Salt Lake by
Babbitt and
background of
continuing success of LDS and
critiques of
Danites and
death of
as de facto leader
as despot
direct revelations from God and
divine inspiration not claimed for handcarts by
doctrine of blood atonement and
and drive to populate Deseret