Hyrum North Trek 2016

If you have seen Ephraim's rescue you would know the story of a boy named Thomas Dobson. I would beckon you to watch the movie but first read this passage to get just a short glimpse into the life of a healer and a young boy.

Ephraim Knowlton Hanks was a man who was called by Brigham Young to go and rescue the saints on the plains. This was something that the lord had been preparing him for, for most of his ...

"Father let mother have a little bigger part of the half ration. This shortage of food, together with having the three children with everything else we had in the handcart, made it too heavy for him to pull alone. In this hungry and also nearly worn-out condition, I have never forgotten how when I, a nine year old boy, would be so tired that I would wish I could sit down for just a few minutes how much good it would do to me, but instead of that my dear, nearly worn-out father ...

Falling asleep at the wrong place had greater hazards for six-year-old Arthur Parker. He had crept into the shade to rest during a morning break on a sultry June day in 1896 and had been left behind. His parents, Robert and Ann Parker, had assumed he was playing along the way with other children and did not miss him until they stopped that afternoon to make camp in the face of a sudden thunderstorm. It was then they realized Arthur was not with them.

George Cunningham was 15 years old when he left his native Scotland with his parents and three sisters to gather to Zion. George had begun working in a coal pit when he was only 7 years old to help support his family. He worked there for 6 years, sometimes for 12 to 14 hours a day. The air was bad in the coal pit, and he sometimes wouldn’t see the sun except on Sunday, his only day off. His family, who had joined the Church shortly after George’s birth, was grateful...

There is a monument marking the Sixth Crossing of the Sweetwater River and the rescue site of the Willie Handcart Company.  John Linford and eight other members of that company are buried there.

On the night of October 14, the Willie Company camped at Independence Rock.  A 17-year old girl, Caroline Reeder, died.  Flour rations were red...