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...their theology and customs. But church officials also calculate that Romney's bid to succeed George W. Bush could remind some mainstream Christians just how different Mormonism is from their faith and perhaps expose their flock to more of the sort of discrimination that drove their founders west by handcart and covered wagon into the Great Salt Lake Valley...
Sometime in the late 1990s, Mitchell and Barzee became fixtures on the streets of Salt Lake. They kept a high profile, dressing in robes and wheeling their possessions around in an elaborate handcart Mitchell had crafted. The stained-wood vehicle, clearly modeled on the carts pushed by the early Mormon pioneers, had a sloping canopy and rested on bicycle wheels...
...Gillmore was hired as camp cook and promised a job in Salt Lake City. "I finally know what it means," he said, "to endure to the end." Ted Moore, a Missouri gold miner, gave a more humorous testament of faith. He dug through the pots and pans in his handcart and pulled out a dusty "Pioneer" Barbie doll. "She's going the whole way with me," Moore said. "Every step that I take, Barbie takes...
...platform and lost the podium, as a series of pro-choice, big-tent messengers dominated prime time. But as it turned out, the big speech really belonged to the devout. Dole mentioned abortion barely at all, but he placed himself so clearly in the hell-in-a-handcart camp that he had to pull back at the end and declare himself the "most optimistic man in America...
...years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly in the Gulag. "I was in Perm five years and seven months. The doctor told me I had bones...