Handcart Companies
These two companies got stranded in a snowstorm.
Willie and Martin handcart companies
Amount of weight carried by a handcart.
250 pounds on average, or up to 500.
Amount of weight allowance on a handcart for each child.
What is ten pounds?
Pioneer children __________ as they walked, and walked, and walked, and walked...
Sang
Name of the first pioneer company to reach the Salt Lake Valley.
What is the Vanguard Company?
Most common causes of death of the pioneers.
Sicknesses, such as cholera or diarrhea.
Weight allowance for each adult.
What is 17 pounds?
"Come help the good work move along..."
Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel
The number of handcart companies that traveled to Utah.
What is 10?
Distance traveled by the Mormon pioneers to reach the Salt Lake Valley.
What is 1300 miles?
The number of miles the pioneers traveled each day.
What is 15 to 20 miles?
The year "Come, Come Ye Saints" was written.
What is 1846?
The number of pioneers who traveled to Utah in the handcart companies.
What is 3000?
The total number of pioneers who came to Utah between 1847 and 1868.
What is an estimate of 60,000-70,000 people?
Foods the pioneers ate while on their journey.
What is flour, sugar, lard, biscuits, cornmeal, rice, dried beans, dried fruit, molasses, vinegar, salt, pepper, bacon, and whatever meat they could hunt?
The last line of Come, Come Ye Saints.
All is well!
Date the last handcart company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.
What is September 24, 1860?
The period of overland emigration of the Mormon pioneers.
What is 1847 through 1868?
The time pioneers started their day at.
Shortly before daybreak, or around 4:00 am.
Words that rhyme with "wheel" as sung in the song Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel.
Seal, feel, real, zeal