Item Detail
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32235
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3
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11
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English
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Proselytism, Immigration and Settlement of Foreign Converts to the Mormon Culture in Zion
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Journal of the West
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April 1967
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6
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2
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189-204
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"The nature of this study is to portray the proselytism, emigration and settlement patterns of foreign converts to the Mormon religion who settled in the Mormon State within the Great Basin of the Western United States. More than ninety per cent of the convert immigrants that came to Zion (the Mormon State in the Great Basin) were of British and Scandinavian ancestry. Of these, a little over one-half were of British origin with the Scandinavians rivaling as a close second. The third group, composing only eight percent of the total migration were Swiss-Germans. This study, for the most part, deals with the British and Scandinavian converts, due to their greater numbers. The scope of the study is roughly from 1847 to 1900, for within this period, the majority of the foreign proselytes came to Zion. The study endeavors to portray the adjustments that the immigrants underwent to become assimilated into the cultural environment created by the Church and the physical environment modified by the culture within the Great Basin." [Author]
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Brigham Young
English Mormons in America
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of the Scandinavian Mission
History of Utah 1540-1886
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
Migration of English Mormons to America
Mormons from Scandinavia, 1850-1900 : A Shepherded Migration
Prelude to the Kingdom : Mormon Desert Conquest, a Chapter in American Cooperative Experience
The Life Story of Brigham Young
The Mormons