SWEETWATER STATION, Wyo. (AP) -- The wagon wheel ruts are still visible in places. Even after 150 years, they mark the toiled struggles of thousands of pioneers who settled the West. And while they ...

Isabel Fisher's trek family (from left: Seamus Smith, Matthew Sandmaier, Dale Ruttan, Angela Ruttan, Amy Smith, Sean Terry, Isabel Fisher, Shaena Leavitt, Micah Rojas) poses for a photo during their ...

SWEETWATER STATION - The wagon wheel ruts are still visible in places. Even after 150 years, they mark the toiled struggles of thousands of pioneers who settled the West. And while they are well off ...

The handcart trek is a way to make pioneer and Mormon history come alive for the participants. The theme of this year’s trek: Bearing our load in the strength of the Lord. “It’s a commemoration of ...

KEARNEY - The trip across Nebraska for the pioneers pushing handcarts was generally filled with hardships, but the 150th anniversary celebration in Kearney June 2 and 3 should be filled with fun.

About 80 teenagers and 20 adults from southeast Louisiana took part in a handcart trek Feb. 10-13, experiencing “in some measure the sacrifice, hardship, endurance, forgiveness, faith and testimony ...

KIMBERLY — Hundreds of teenagers will push and pull handcarts this week as they walk in the footsteps of pioneers. It will be a “handcart trek” accompanied by fun and laughter, but with a sober tone ...

A group of young people re-creating pioneer hardships got a more realistic experience than they expected Friday, when some of them suffered from dehydration on the trail. A group of about 360 youths ...

Mormon teens forsake cellphones, iPads, makeup and video games, don long dresses, aprons and bonnets or pants with suspenders, and set out on a grueling, exhausting, heat-smacking three-day wilderness ...

[Recent 'mini-trek' was] a promotional event for the full trek from Iowa City to Salt Lake City set to roll in summer 2009. ...The Mormon Trail Handcart Trek 2009 will commence next April, as part of ...

SWEETWATER STATION, Wyo. — The wagon wheel ruts are still visible in places, even after 150 years. They mark the struggles of thousands of pioneers who settled the West. Although they are well off ...

The trek starts at Sixth Crossing — a pioneer crossing point on the Sweetwater River in south-central Wyoming — and snakes its way over a hilly landscape. It climbs the jagged limestone of Rocky Ridge ...