6643

Journal Article

English

Mulder, William

Mormons from Scandinavia, 1850-1900 : A Shepherded Migration

Pacific Historical Review

August 1954

23

1954

227-46

The arrival of the Mormon Missionaries in Copenhagen in May 1850 marked the beginning of the significant expansion of Mormonism's transatlantic career with its important consequences of populating the American West. The consumer cooperative, essentially a problem of putting the emigrants' meager resources into the hands of a Church agent, gave the new group bargaining power. The activity of the Church agent assisted this project.

Administrative history, emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants, Scandinavian
Missiology, Scandinavia

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The Tide of Mormon Migration Flowing Through the Port of Liverpool England
Utah's Ugly Ducklings : A Profile of the Scandinavian Immigrant