On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West

by Michael W. Homer

Book Overview

Most travelers to Utah during the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, especially those from Europe, were curious about the
state's community of Latter-day Saints, with their "seventeenstrong
families with only one man!" This collection of the
writings of some of those European travelers breaks new ground
by ignoring the tradition of incorporating only the predictably
benign views of English gentlemen. It includes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806140836
• ISBN13: 9780806140834
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"