Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie And Martin Handcart Story

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In the mid nineteenth century, tens of thousands crowded the docks of Liverpool for a one-way voyage to America. In 1856, nearly two thousand of these emigrants were eager to begin a journey that would conclude with a thousand mile walk pushing their possessions in two-wheeled carts across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. They began the trek in high spirits, even though it meant months of walking. However, for two handcart companies, a late start, harsh winter weather, hunger and illness spelled disaster. More than two hundred perished, and the survivors could only pray for a miracle. And that miracle came - from men who risked their lives traveling hundred of miles through freezing weather and fierce snowstorms to save almost a thousand emigrants. Dramatic and powerful, "Sweetwater Rescue" is the true story of one of the greatest acts of heroism in nineteenth century America.

Unusual Snowstorms Of 1855; Handcart Travel; Good Charles Good; "Art Of The Trail" - 75 new paintings, and the Artists; "Handcart Travel - Success Or Failure?"; "The Emigrants: Where Did They Come From?"; "Sweetwater Crossing"; "Women On The Trail"; "Thomas Tennant And The Perpetual Emigrating Fund"; "Mary Goble," as told by President Gordon B. Hinkley and Virginia Pearce; "The Making Of 'Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie And Martin Handcart Story'" "Come, Come Ye Saints" - A Musical Tribute by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Epilogue, Featurette.