The Willie Handcart Company Journal

This is the daily journal kept by the Willie Martin Handcart Company. The Company departed Liverpool in May of 1856 bound for the Salt Lake Valley. They traveled by ship to New York City. From New York they traveled by train and steamship to Iowa City where they were outfitted with handcarts. The group left late in the season and faced hardships and suffering including death until they were rescued in Wyoming and taken by wagon to the Salt Lake Valley.