A handcart is a small wheeled cart pushed or pulled by a person rather than an animal or engine, used to move goods over short distances. Handcarts became historically significant in the United States when thousands of Latter-day Saint emigrants, unable to afford wagons and draft animals, pulled handcarts loaded with their belongings across the plains to Utah in a series of westward migrations in the late 1850s, an episode remembered as the Mormon handcart pioneers.
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SignificanceUsed by westward-emigrating Mormons in the mid-1800s to carry their belongings. 1 Connections
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Handcarts were pulled by people or animals depending on era and region.
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Human-powered carts
A large cart used in the mid-1800s by westward-emigrating Mormons to carry their belongings
In Group: Hand-Pulled and Hand-Pushed Carts, Lead sentence
A cart is a two-wheeled vehicle designed for transport. It can be pulled by humans or draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or smaller animals such as goats and large dogs.
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