Liverpool to Great Salt Lake

The 1851 Journal of Missionary George D. Watt
Herausgeber: Carruth, Lajean Purcell; Watt, Ronald G

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Produktbeschreibung

LaJean Purcell Carruth and Ronald G. Watt’s transcribed and edited edition of George Watt’s journal, written in Pitman shorthand, describing his 1851 migration from Liverpool to Salt Lake City, provides a literary contribution to Latter-day Saints’ historiography, detailing the multivarious challenges of migrating to Utah.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781496229878
• ISBN-10: 1496229878
• Artikelnr.: 62351507

Autorenporträt

LaJean Purcell Carruth is a senior historian at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. She is the coeditor of Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers. Ronald G. Watt is retired after working thirty-five years for the archives of the LDS Church Historical Department. He is the author of four books, including The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface: George D. Watt—Out of Obscurity and into the Light
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Latter-day Saint Gathering
George D. Watt’s Pitman Shorthand and the Process of Transcription
1. The Atlantic Ocean
2. The Rivers
3. The Trail
4. The End of the Trail
5. Sermons Delivered by Orson Pratt On Board the Ellen Maria
Appendix 1: Style Guide for Transcriptions from Pitman Shorthand
Appendix 2: Third Company of Ten of the John Brown Company
Appendix 3: George D. Watt’s Wives and Children
Appendix 4: Two Reminiscent Accounts from Early Latter-day Saint
Missionaries to England
Appendix 5: Yearly Numbers of People Traveling the Overland Trails
Glossary of Nautical, Steamboat, and River Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index