
Bring Them to Zion: The 1856 Handcart Emigration Organization, Leadership, and Issues
by Don H Smith with the assistance of Mark C. Austin Available July 22, 2025 in paperback and ebook. Preorder today! “A remarkable gift to the historians who study the overland migration and the descendants of those courageous handcart pioneers.” — Reid L. Neilson Available in ebook for Kindle, Apple, Google Play, and, Kobo. Preview the volume. Book Description: Bring Them to Zion: The 1856 Handcart Emigration Organization, Leadership, and Issues offers a deeply researched and meticulously documented account of one of the most ambitious and controversial episodes in Latter-day Saint pioneer history. Drawing on original sources and archival materials, the authors reconstruct the organizational challenges and decision-making processes that led to the infamous 1856 handcart migration. This emigration effort, driven by faith and constrained by logistics, sought to bring impoverished European converts across the American plains with minimal resources—relying on handcarts instead