Item Detail
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7960
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English
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The Saints and the Captain : The Mormons Meet Richard F. Burton
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Journal of the West
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October 1994
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33
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28-35
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Richard F. Burton, translator of 'The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night,' popularly known as 'The Arabian Nights,' wrote 'The City of the Saints' after spending a month in Utah among the Mormon community. Though skeptical about Burton's motives, the Mormons welcomed him and assisted him with his research, assigning the Church historian as his guide. Burton made a whole-hearted effort to understand Mormon cultures and produced an objective and comprehensive account of the community of Latter-day Saints.