The Willie and Martin Handcart Companies in the History of Mormonism

There is an event in the History of Mormonism that people have heard about called the handcart companies. These Hand cart companies used handcarts due to a lack of money for wagons. There were 10, but I'm going to speak about the 4th and 5th companies. These are the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies. These Two companies both left in 1856 and suffered major trials. Greater than those of other companies. Each Company left at different times and arrives at different times. The Martin Handcart Company was named after Edward Martin. They arrive into Salt Lake on the 9th of November. They had a total of about 220 deaths in both companies. The Willie Handcart Company was named after James G. Willie. They had a harder time. They arrived on the 30th still of November, but they had over 125 deaths to their company. These Two companies had to fight terrible snowstorms that arrived early in the year and due to all the terrible environments events in this moment in the history of Mormonism they had who knows how many amputations of fingers, legs, arms, and whatever else. Just imagine how terrible it would have been like to live in this moment in time with them. They re-enact the handcart companies as a general in an event that happens every four years that teens ages 14-18 can go on with parents approval. It's a ton shorter of course, but they do have two companies that go a further distance to display this. They do this stuff in the summer instead. They just display the Willie and Martin by having them go an extra distance.