On the way to somewhere else :European sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834-1930 /edited by Michael W. Homer.
Description
"The Mormonites" : the first European observers, 1830-46 -- "Polygamy is a sword of Damocles" : overland travelers in Utah, 1849-55 -- "Gathering to Zion" : European converts in Utah -- "But Brigham Young is still governor" : Mormonism's secular control, 1859-69 -- "The king of New Jerusalem" : riding the rails through Utah, 1869-77 -- "Excursions in my own mind" : European fantasy accounts of the Mormon West -- "The country of apotheoses" : the first European visitors to southern Utah -- "The many Scandinavians who live in Utah" : northern literary lights in the Mormon West -- "Bitter salt, and hopeless" : the last struggle for statehood, 1878-96 -- "Americans like all the others" : accommodations after statehood, 1896-1930 -- Afterword: "Hunters of the picturesque" : Utah in the twenty-first century.
420 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Spokane, Wash.
Date Published
2006
Publication Subjects
Mormon pioneers--West (U.S.)--History--Anecdotes.
Mormons--West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Anecdotes.
Travelers--West (U.S.)--Anecdotes.
Europeans--West (U.S.)--Anecdotes.
Travelers' writings, European.