Homeward To Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia

By William Mulder

In the late nineteenth century, thirty thousand members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland immigrated to Utah, dissatisfied with conditions in their homelands. As their countrymen were farming rich fields in other parts of the United States, Scandinavian Mormons were making their way to Salt Lake City, many overland before the completion of the transcontinental railroad. 

Homeward to Zion tracks this movement from northern Europe to the western desert, examining the LDS recruiting efforts in Scandinavia as well as the arduous journey across the Great Plains. Mulder draws extensively from personal narratives of these immigrants to relate their pioneering experience and their role in the history of Scandinavian migration and of the settlement of the American West. 

Paperback, 392 pages, 2000.