Review: Candy Moulton. The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge nor Pen Can Never Tell the Sorrow.” Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

Authors

Megan Ann Stanton

Keywords

handcart, suffering, migration, Martin Company, Willie Company, church history

Abstract

After surviving the overland trail as a member of the Martin Handcart Company, Heber McBride asserted, “tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow and suffering” (81). At the age of thirteen, he and his adolescent sister Janetta had tended to their ailing parents and younger siblings while moving the family’s handcart themselves. They buried their father during their journey and, together with other members of the ill-fated Martin and Willie Handcart Companies, they faced life-threatening weather and starvation. Indeed, at least one-seventh of the Willie and one-fifth of the Martin handcart migrants perished during their 1856 treks.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Stanton, Megan Ann (2021) "Review: Candy Moulton. The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge nor Pen Can Never Tell the Sorrow.” Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 8: No. 1, Article 20.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol8/iss1/20