Teens relive adventure, hardships on Mormon trail

Women were dressed in bonnets, long dresses and aprons, and the men wore straw hats, suspenders and flannel cotton shirts. Numerous wooden handcarts were filled to the brim with family belongings crowded together in a neat little circle.

The scene looked like something from the 1800s during American pioneers� migration west. But this was no cross-country voyage.

The journey before these pioneers was a 17-mile-trek, symbolizing the one their fellow Mormons and ancestors made nearly 170 years ago.

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