On the way to somewhere else : European sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834-1930 / edited by Michael W. Homer.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Homer, Michael W.
Language:	English
Published:	Spokane, Wash. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 2006.
Series:	Kingdom in the West ; v. 8.
Subjects:	Latter Day Saint pioneers > West (U.S.) > History > Anecdotes. Latter Day Saints > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Anecdotes. Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes. West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Anecdotes. West (U.S.) > Description and travel > Anecdotes. Travelers > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes. Europeans > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes. Travelers' writings, European.
Genre:	Anecdotes.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

"The Mormonites" : the first European observers, 1830-46
"Polygamy is a sword of Damocles" : overland travelers in Utah, 1849-55
"Gathering to Zion" : European converts in Utah
"But Brigham Young is still governor" : Mormonism's secular control, 1859-69
"The king of New Jerusalem" : riding the rails through Utah, 1869-77
"Excursions in my own mind" : European fantasy accounts of the Mormon West
"The country of apotheoses" : the first European visitors to southern Utah
"The many Scandinavians who live in Utah" : northern literary lights in the Mormon West
"Bitter salt, and hopeless" : the last struggle for statehood, 1878-96
"Americans like all the others" : accommodations after statehood, 1896-1930
Afterword: "Hunters of the picturesque" : Utah in the twenty-first century.