Homeward To Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia - Softcover

Mulder, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816636745 ISBN 13: 9780816636747

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

William Mulder was born in Holland in 1915. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1920. He was the founding director of the University of Utah's Institute for American Studies and of the Center for Intercultural Studies, and he was for many years the editor of Western Humanities Review. An emeritus professor of American studies at the University of Utah, Mulder received the Governor's Award in the Humanities from the Utah Humanities Council in 1999.

Review:

"A thoroughly authoritative study, it is a contribution of high caliber indeed to the social history of America and to the understanding of Mormonism." -- American Sociological Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0816636745
• ISBN 13: 9780816636747
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392