Far away in the west
Subtitle: reflections on the Mormon pioneer trail
By: edited by Scott C. Esplin, Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Craig K. Manscill
Publisher: BYU Religious Studies Center
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Provo, Utah
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780842529693
Subjects: Mormon Church; Mormon pioneers; Frontier and pioneer life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Farewell to the City of Joseph; title: Cartographic representations of the American west on the eve of the Mormon exodus / Douglas Seefeldt; title: John C. Fremont's 1843-44 western expedition into Utah and the Mormons in Illinois; title: The economic sacrifice of the Nauvoo exodus / Susan Easton Black; title: "The poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick": the Luman Andros Shurtliff Poor Camp rescue / Wendy Top; title: Part II. Westward to Zion; title: "The place which god for us prepared": presettlement Wasatch Range environment / Terry B. Ball and Spencer Snyder; title: The Mormon exodus as seen through the Horace K. Whitney journals / Richard E. Bennett; title: The Mississippi saints: a unique odyssey of southern pioneers / David F. Boone; title: Cache Cave: Utah's first register / Henry "Hank" R. Smith; title: Part III. Protecting, developing, and revisiting the trail; title: Utah's role in protecting emigrant trails during the Civil War / Kenneth L. Alford; title: The pioneer trail and routes of the iron horse and the horseless carriage; title: Wilford wood's twentieth-century crossing; title: and recrossing; title: of the plains: a collector, his church, and the mid-century rise in Latter-Day Saint historic site consciousness / J. B. Haws; title: "Lest thou forget": memorializing and marking the Mormon pioneer trail / Scott C. Esplin.