Mormon Handcart Visitors’ Center (Rawlings, Wyoming)

As Desmodus says, “It’s like the Donner Party only really laughable and with no cannibalism.” Learn about the great Mormon Handcart Tragedy – where some ill-equipped and dim-witted Mormons pioneers from England left Iowa and embarked on a 1,200 mile wilderness trek to Salt Lake City to late in the year… with the expected tragic consequences.