Unnamed Saint on the Plains sees the fulfillment of a Mormon prophecy regarding wheelbarrows
Published October 4, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Millennial Star Research
While traveling the plains near Sweetwater, a party met a Scotchman traveling with a wheelbarrow. Brother John O. Angus, a member of the party, identified this as the fulfillment of a prophecy made by a Mormon prophet three years prior that people would travel the plains with wheelbarrows.
In Their Own Words
“One of our company, brother John O. Angus, told him he had in beholding him, seen the fulfilment of a Mormon prophecy. Three years ago I heard a Mormon prophet declare that they would travel the plains with wheelbarrows. — Millennial Star 12:19”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 1 October 1850 (Vol. 12, No. 19). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1850-10-01_12_19 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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