Episode 165: The Handcart Companies

- Kirsten Erickson’s experience
- Brigham Young’s One Mighty and Strong Statement
- South Pass: Gateway to a Continent by Will Bagley
- “ONE LONG FUNERAL MARCH”: A REVISIONIST’S VIEW OF THE MORMON HANDCART DISASTERS by Will Bagley
- LDS Overland Travel Database
- Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts
- Denver Post: Handcart Hypocrisy
- Sunstone: Two-Wheeled Torture Devices: A Contrarian’s View Of The Handcart Disaster
- Live Science: Going West Wasn’t So Deadly for Early Mormon Pioneers
- Human Mortality in a Natural Disaster: The Willie Handcart Company
- John Turner’s take on the Handcart expeditions
- Leadership, Planning, and Management of the 1856 Mormon Handcart Emigration by Don H. Smith
- By Common Consent: Learning the wrong lessons
- LDS version of the rescue
- HANDCART MYTH AND FACT
- The Martin Handcart Company at the Sweetwater – BYU Studies
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