As background for some family history writing, I’ve been gathering all the facts I can to fit a story around my ancestors. There is a wealth of information on the Ellsworth Handcart Company of 1856 much of it thanks to the LDS Church History Library’s Overland Travel Database with links to many of the original sources. This is helpful to counter the otherwise frustrating reality that most historians concentrate on the grand success of the...
Continue reading at the original source →