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Immigrant wagons and stock in Echo Canyon, ca. 1866, en route to Salt Lake City, USHS collections
I N I860, THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FIRST MoRMON immigrant Company rolled into the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young and his counselors debated both the reliability and efficiency of using handcarts to transport new converts from eastern points to Utah. Although handcarts were modestly successful, a greater effort was needed to increase the Mr. Hulmston is an archivist with the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service.
