Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia

by William Mulder

Book Overview

The classic history of this emblematic moment in U.S. immigration.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816636745
• ISBN13: 9780816636747
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"