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5318
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English
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The Curious Meet the Mormons : Images from Travel Narratives, 1850s and 1860s
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 1998
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24
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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155-81
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Most studies of the Mormon's nineteenth-century public image have drawn their data from novels, periodicals, and newspapers of the period, while the more sympathetic descriptions in the travel narratives have received relatively little attention. These accounts merit more attention for three reasons: their writers are, for the most part, well-educated and sophisticated travelers in search of knowl edge, not just sensation; they report a more balanced picture of the Saints in their Zion that stands in conscious contrast to the flamboy ant popular press; and they collectively provide detailed information on Mormon daily life that all historians of nineteenth-century Mormonism in the West should consider. This paper examines eighteen selected travel narratives written in or translated into English that detail a visit to Salt Lake City between 1849 and 1867 and that were printed between 1851 and 1872.
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A Visit to Salt Lake : Being a Journey Across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlement at Utah.
British Travelers View the Saints, 1847-1877
Exploring the Great Salt Lake : The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Sir Richard F. Burton : Exceptional Observer of the Mormon Scene
Stansbury's Expedition to the Great Salt Lake, 1849-50
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Image of Utah and the Mormons in Nineteenth-Century Germany
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Story of the Latter-day Saints