| Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia Contributor(s): Mulder, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816636745 ISBN-13: 9780816636747 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: In the late nineteenth century, thirty thousand Mormons from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland immigrated to Utah, dissatisfied with conditions in their homelands. As their countrymen were farming rich fields in other parts of the United States, Scandinavian Mormons were making their way to Salt Lake City. Homeward to Zion tracks this movement from northern Europe to the western desert, examining the Mormon recruiting efforts in Scandinavia as well as the arduous journey across the Great Plains. Mulder draws extensively from personal narratives of these immigrants to relate their pioneering experience and their role in the history of Scandinavian migration and of the settlement of the American West. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Minority Studies - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) |
| Dewey: 304.879 |
| LCCN: 2001268235 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 5.87" W x 8.94" (1.34 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Utah - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds |