Welsh Saints on the Mormon Trail
Title | Welsh Saints on the Mormon Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Wil Aaron |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 9781912631209 |
"Between the mid 1840s and late 1860s, around 5,000 Welsh people, inspired by the Mormon faith, ventured to start a new life in the United States...seeking their holy city in the West..."--back cover.
My Own Pioneers 1830-1918
Title | My Own Pioneers 1830-1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn J. Kappler |
Publisher | Outskirts Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2015-01-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 147873700X |
The three volumes of My Own Pioneers together tell a remarkable story of the desperate pioneer struggles of four generations of the author’s family. Although the memorable historical journey begins seven generations ago, these three volumes of stories focus on four important pioneer generation. They are the culmination of fifteen years of painstaking research as the author carefully reconstructs her family’s pioneer struggles from before 1830 to 1918 using information from family records, journals, memoirs, histories and letters, supplemented by accounts from their pioneer companions, and by Church and other official records. Volume I tells about the author’s once prosperous pioneer families survived the French and Indian War and the War of 1812, then eventually relocated to join the newly founded Mormon Church. The stories tell how the pressure of mobs and mob wars eventually forced these families to abandon everything as they were driven from place to place, until they found themselves exiled on the western-most border of the United States—at the Missouri River—looking toward the wild and hostile West as their only refuge. Stories describe how dozens of family members were among the Mormon refugees who died by the hundreds at the Missouri River, of illness, starvation and exposure. Yet family members had managed to journey among Indians on the frontier to preach, and had sailed through nearly catastrophic ocean storms to preach in England. And despite much sorrow and hardship, this volume relates how five family members left their loved ones behind at the sickly Missouri River in order to march down the Old Santa Fe Trail in the U.S. Army’s Mormon Battalion to prove their loyalty to the government by helping to fight a war with Mexico.
Devil's Gate
Title | Devil's Gate PDF eBook |
Author | David Roberts |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1416539883 |
Traces the tragedy-marked 1856 journey of three thousand Mormons from Iowa to Utah, explaining how leader Brigham Young disregarded warnings and then convinced his followers that hardships and deaths were part of a higher plan.
The Welsh in Iowa
Title | The Welsh in Iowa PDF eBook |
Author | Cherilyn A Walley |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0708322417 |
The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.
Civil War Saints
Title | Civil War Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Alford |
Publisher | Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780842528160 |
Collection of essays and articles about the US Civil War, with a focus on, but not limited to, people who were either members or later became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Topics include historical facts about actual events, people, landmarks, and stories; most of which are connected to the US Civil War.
The Peoples of Utah
Title | The Peoples of Utah PDF eBook |
Author | Utah State Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Contains histories of some of the minorities in Utah.
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel
Title | Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First Presidency |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190600896 |
"Spanning the first decade after the Mormon exodus to the Salt Lake Valley, these fourteen "general epistles" were written by Brigham Young and his counselors in the church's First Presidency. They provide a glimpse of the Mormons' earliest years in the Great Basin and their simultaneous missionary efforts worldwide."--Provided by the publisher.