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'My Idea is to Go Right Through Right Side Up with Care' : The Exodus as Reformation
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Vol. 3 in the Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series. Logan, Utah
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Utah State University Press
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'The essential purpose of this essay is to try to answer a fundamental question: under what circumstances did they, the active participants in this much-heralded original pioneer trek of 1847, believe they would succeed? What were their terms of exodus, their essential criteria for success? While others have given ample place for economics and geography, I intend to analyze their own statements. And though there is obvious room to discuss politics and preparations, leadership styles and trail blazing capacities, at core was the matter of how they viewed what they were doing.' (taken from author's introduction)