Ports to Posts

Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century

Fred E. Woods (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3070-6 (ISBN)

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Ports to Posts is the result of more than a quarter century of research in Latter-day Saint migration narratives from the nineteenth century. Fred E. Woods takes the reader from early church beginnings in upstate New York to ecclesiastical gathering places in Kirtland, Ohio, and Jackson County, Missouri. The journey then incorporates international European ports to Latter-day Saint gathering locations in Nauvoo, Illinois, and later in the Salt Lake Valley during the peak of this emigrant era.

Through these stories, the reader will learn about the missionary proselyting process and how it led converts to Liverpool, the primary place of embarkation, across the Atlantic, and into harbors at New Orleans, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Authentic voices describe the challenges church members faced as they left their homelands and endured storms and the efforts of enemies who tried to dissuade them from their destinations. Ports to Posts captures not only the emigrants’ journeys but also how Americans perceived these often unwanted pilgrims. Woods’s research reveals the purpose and process by which Latter-day Saints gathered to create their American Zion and converts’ solemn obligation to assemble in American gathering places.

Fred E. Woods is a professor of religious education at Brigham Young University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including most recently Bright Lights in the Desert: The Latter-day Saints of Las Vegas and (with Malcolm Adcock) The Latter-day Saint Image in the British Mind.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Early Church Beginnings, Teachings, and Gatherings
2. By Land and Sea to Nauvoo (1840–46)
3. In and Out of Liverpool
4. Shipping the Saints
5. Crossing the Seas
6. Men in Motion on the Mississippi
7. The Knights of Castle Garden
8. LDS Emigration through Missouri by River and Rail (1838–68)
9. LDS Frontier Outfitting Posts
10. LDS Emigration and Military Posts
11. Arrival at the Final Post
Appendix: LDS Emigration Agents (Nineteenth Century)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	34 photographs, 9 illustrations, 1 appendix, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-4962-3070-1 / 1496230701
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3070-6 / 9781496230706
Zustand	Neuware