Choose Your Pioneer Name

Each youth should plan to walk for a pioneer. This will help them to see the trek challenge through the eyes of those who actually did it. We have listed some of the better documented Pioneers below. Please plan to research these pioneer's stories and decide which one you will walk for. You may also choose names that are not listed here, but please limit your selection to someone from one of the following five companies (Martin Handcart Company, Willie Handcart Company, Hodgett Wagon Company, Hunt Wagon Company, or the Rescue Company). Please let us know which name you choose so we can prepare bios for your lanyard. Once you have chosen the name you want to walk for, just go back, click the Register Now button, then the Registration Form, and then enter your name and you will see a field lower on the page that asks for the name of the pioneer you plan to walk for. Fill it in, scroll down, and click the "Submit" button. You don't need to fill out all the other fields if you have already registered.

        Members of the Willie Handcart Company
Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year  Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year 
Julia HillFemaleEngland1833 Niels AndersenMaleDenmark1815
Emily HillFemaleEngland1836 John BaileyMaleEngland1804
Mary HurrenFemaleEngland1848 Thomas CaldwellMaleScotland1842
Elizabeth HumphrysFemaleEngland1844 James CantwellMaleIreland1813
Mary Priscilla GriffithsFemaleEngland1831 George CunninghamMaleScotland1840
Eliza CrookFemaleEngland1837 Joseph ElderMaleIndiana1835
Susannah StoneFemaleEngland1830 Chesterton GillmanMaleEngland1780
Rebecca PilgrimFemaleEngland1826 Thomas GirdlestoneMaleEngland1793
Jemima Brown RogersFemaleEngland1803 William GrovesMaleEngland1834
Rebecca Cula LangmanFemaleEngland1835 James HurrenMaleEngland1827
Bodil MortensenFemaleDenmark1845 William JamesMaleEngland1808
Elizabeth Crook Panting  FemaleEngland1827 Michael JensenMaleDenmark1845
Emma SummersFemaleEngland1828 James KirkwoodMaleScotland1845
Christina McNeilFemaleScotland1831 Joseph McKayMaleIreland1799
Archibald McPhailMaleScotland1816 Lars Gudman Wandelin  MaleSweden1796
James Heber MoultonMaleEngland1848 Andrew WatsonMaleScotland1832
Niels NielsonMaleDenmark1850 Peder MortensenMaleDenmark1806
Jens NielsonMaleDenmark1820 Ole MadsenMaleDenmark1815
John ObornMaleEngland1843 John StewartMaleScotland1824
Levi SavageMaleOhio1820 Thomas RowleyMaleEngland1846
Andrew SmithMaleScotland1837 John LinfordMaleEngland1808
 
        Members of the Hunt Wagon Company
Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year  Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year 
Ruth JamesFemaleWales1835 Mary Adelaide WatersFemaleWales1850
Ann MalinFemaleEngland1832 Mary Jane CutliffFemaleEngland1835
 
        Members of the Martin Handcart Company
Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year  Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year 
Jane BittonFemaleEngland1836 Sarah Ann HaighFemaleEngland1837
Hannah Evans BowenFemaleWales1817 Elizabeth Horrocks JacksonFemaleEngland1826
Sarah Ann FranksFemaleEngland1834 Alice Fish Walsh StrongFemaleEngland1829
Jeanetta Ann McBrideFemaleEngland1839 Charlotte Elizabeth MellorFemaleEngland1832
Mary Lawson KirkmanFemaleEngland1823 Francis WebsterMaleEngland1830
Amy Britnell LoaderFemaleEngland1802 George PadleyMaleEngland1835
Elizabeth GreenFemaleEngland1833 John JacquesMaleEngland1827
Mary Murray MurdochFemaleScotland1872 James BleakMaleEngland1829
Eliza Cusworth BurtonFemaleEngland1824     
 
        Members of the Hodgett Wagon Company
Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year  Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year 
Louisa JonesFemaleEngland1837 Anna Jorgenson LarsenFemaleDenmark1827
Marie Wilhemina Catherine
   Krause
FemaleDenmark1847     
 
        Members of the Rescue Company
Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year  Name  Gender   Birth Place  Birth Year 
Ellen Brekel NeibaurFemaleEngland1811 Robert Angus BainMaleEngland1830
William BroomheadMaleEngland1833 Joseph ElderMaleIndiana1835