Preservation

15 accounts from the Pioneer Miracles collection

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William Coray: 'Nothing Could Have Saved Our Lives but the Unseen Hand of Almighty God' — Mormon Battalion Journal, January 1847

Reddick Newton Allred: A Handcart Rescuer of 1856 (1822–1905)

Melissa Coray: The 18-Year-Old Bride Who Walked 2,000 Miles Rather Than Be Separated from Her Husband (1846–1847)

Mary Alice Cannon Lambert's Meat Preservation through Salt(1848)

Patience Loader Rozsa Archer: Martin Handcart Survivor Who Pulled Her Father's Share Through the Snow (1856)

Captain Daniel C. Davis: Commander of Company E — Led His Men Through the Continental March with Faith and Military Discipline (1813–1883)(1846)

Cyrus Canfield Beers: Private, Company C — From the Mormon Battalion to Faithful Colonizer of Dixie (1818–1895)(1846)

George Washington Bradley: Private, Company B — Battalion Veteran and Utah Pioneer Who Answered Every Call (1820–1888)(1846)

William Barter: Private, Company C — Mormon Battalion Veteran Who Built His Life in Utah After the Continental March (1822–1898)(1846)

Jefferson Bailey: Private, Company C — Completed the Battalion March and Lived to See Utah Statehood (1823–1897)(1846)

Abigail Smith Abbott: The Mormon Battalion 'Widow' and Her Deliverance Across the Plains (c. 1839–1848)

Isabella Jan Bradshaw Astle: A Child of the Handcart Pioneers Featured in 'Ephraim's Rescue' (1856)

Langley Allgood Bailey: A Survivor of the Martin Handcart Company of 1856

John Dixon: Private, Company C — Completed the Mormon Battalion March and Built His Life in Utah's Pioneer Communities (1819–1893)(1846)

Twiss Bermingham: An Irish Convert's Diary of Sea and Plain (1855-1856)

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