Item Detail
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8189
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24
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English
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Mormon Foreknowledge of the West
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BYU Studies
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Fall 1981
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21
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403-15
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"Among those seeking a new home beyond the Mississippi in 1846 were the Mormons, whose particular brand of religion was obnoxious to their neighbors in Missouri and Illinois. Even though the Mormon migration to the American West was part of the general overland movement of the midnineteenth century, it also differed from the broader western migration in some important ways. First, it was a cooperative mass-movement of a whole people, even a whole culture. The Mormons were not gold seekers or hunters or fur trappers. They were home seekers and home builders. Their purpose was to find a land so remote they could get beyond the reach of their enemies and worship God according to their own pattern and build his kingdom as they had been commanded. Second, by 1846 the Mormon leaders had as extensive a knowledge of the land beyond the Rocky Mountains as was available in the maps and books of the period. Their trek to that region was neither a mere accident nor a sudden inspiration; rather, they had learned all they could about the West prior to their exodus in February 1846." [Publisher's abstract]
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Brigham Young : American Moses
Cultural Conflict : Mormons and Indians in Nebraska
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Faithful and Fearless : Major Howard Egan : Early Mormonism and the Pioneering of the American West
Finalizing Plans for the Trek West : Deliberations at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
History of the Saints : the Great Mormon Exodus and the Establishment of Zion
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852 : "And Should We Die"
Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning
One Side By Himself : The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
People and Power of Nauvoo
Pioneers in the Attic : Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History : Western Canada
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The Council of Fifty and the Search for Religious Liberty
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Voyage of the Brooklyn
Window of Faith : Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History -
A Study of Mormon Knowledge of the American Far West Prior to the Exodus (1830 - February, 1846)
'It Seems Like Heaven Began on Earth' : Joseph Smith and the Constitution of the Kingdom of God
Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Mormon Battalion
Westward Migration of the Mormons : With Special Emphasis on the History of Nauvoo