Iowa-History-Mormon Trail

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US-GCS DCL Arch Pamph-1.1 Iowa History-1.1

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Iowa-History-Mormon Trail

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Documents on the Mormon Handcart Trail as it passed through Iowa, including the grave west of Grinnell.

-Six articles on the grave of the Mormon child along the handcart trail, found west of Grinnell.
-Eight articles on the history of the Mormon trail through Iowa, from the Herald Register, the Iowan, and Des Moines Register.
-Essay "The Mormon Handcart Trail" by Daniel Ogata.
-Essay "Faint Footsteps of 1856-57 Retraced: The Location of the Iowa Mormon Handcart Route" by Steven F. Faux, Annals of Iowa 2006.

  • Essay "On the Trail of Brigham Young Across Iowa" by Porter French, Grinnell local.

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