Descendants of Ephraim K. Hanks

09/21/2018

http://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/21

Ephraim K. Hanks' involvement in the transportation of mail across the plains began in 1851. In August of that year, Samuel H. Woodson subcontracted the delivery of mail between Fort Laramie and Salt Lake City to Hanks and another man named Feramorz Little. Contracted for $8,000 a year, the pai...

09/21/2018

http://www.hanksplace.net/people/ephraim_knowlton_hanks/

05/11/2017

"The terrific storm which caused the immigrants so much suffering and loss overtook me near the South Pass, where I stopped about three days with Reddick N. Allred, who had come out with provisions for the immigrants. The storm during these three days was simply awful. In all my travels in the Rocky Mountains both before and afterwards, I have seen no worse. When at length the snow ceased falling, it lay on the ground so deep that for many days it was impossible to move wagons through it." https://history.lds.org/article/pioneer-story-martins-cove-ephraim-hanks?lang=eng

05/11/2017

https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/sources/97569/hanks-ephraim-ephraim-k-hanks-narrative-in-andrew-jenson-church-emigration-contributor-14-mar-1893-202-5

A list of sources for the companies and pioneers and their stories/travels

05/11/2017

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Hanks

Ephraim Knowlton Hanks (21 March 1826 – 9 June 1896) was a prominent member of the 19th-Century Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer and a well known leader in the early settlement of Utah.

06/23/2014

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02/02/2014

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01/05/2014

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