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Additional authors

1. Homer, Michael W.

Description

1. 420 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Kingdom in the West ; v. 8

Subject

1. Mormon pioneers > West (U.S.) > History > Anecdotes
2. Europeans > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes
3. Travelers > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes
4. Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes
5. West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
6. Mormons > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
7. West (U.S.) > Description and travel > Anecdotes
8. Travelers' writings, European

Contents

1. "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.

Call number

1. IXC 06-5124

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-408) and index.

Title

1. On the way to somewhere else : European sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834-1930 / edited by Michael W. Homer.

Imprint

1. Spokane, Wash. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 2006.

Series

1. Kingdom in the West ; v. 8

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-408) and index.

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1. Table of contents

Added author

1. Homer, Michael W.

LCCN

1. 2005033476

ISBN

1. 0870623419 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 0870622749 (series)

Research call number

1. IXC 06-5124