Salt Lake City

The Handcart Pioneer Monument is a tribute to the thousands of Mormon pioneers who walked across the plains on a 1,350 mile trek from Iowa to Salt Lake City in the 1850s. Their journey was especially hard because the settlers could not afford the larger ox-drawn wagons and instead had to push and pull their possessions in handmade wood carts. The sculpture is a bronze depiction of a family working together to transport their possessions and themselves.