On the Way to Somewhere Else - Homer, Michael

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Résumé :
Most travelers to Utah during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially those from Europe, were curious about the state's community of Latter-day Saints, with their seventeenstrong families with only one man! This collection of the writings of some of those European travelers breaks new ground by ignoring the tradition of incorporating only the predictably benign views of English gentlemen. It includes, instead, such colorful perspectives toward the Mormons as those of an outraged Italian Catholic priest, an intrigued German prince, a liberated Frenchwoman, and a devout French convert. The European visitors encountered not only faithful Mormons-including the man they called the Pope of Mormonism, Brigham Young-but other lively characters of the American West, from fur traders to Indians to soldiers.