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- Title
(Re)living the Pioneer Past: Mormon Youth Handcart Trek Re-enactments.
- Authors
Jones, Megan Sanborn
- Abstract
This article reflects on re-enactments of Mormon Youth Handcart Trek in Wyoming and its role in reliving the formation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Oregon Trail and the Pony Express route all converge in Wyoming's Martin's Cove. It is the site where two Mormon Handcart Companies members died in 1856. These deaths and rescue effort represent a historical event in the formation of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS Church opened The Mormon Handcart Visitors' Center at Martin's Cove in 1997. This gave the youth the opportunity to participate in organized recreations of a handcart trek. These treks are organized as youth conferences.
- Subjects
WYOMING; MORMON handcart companies; MORMON pioneers; CHURCH of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; HISTORICAL reenactments; YOUTH
- Publication
Theatre Topics, 2006, Vol 16, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
1054-8378
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tt.2006.0020