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Liverpool to Great Salt Lake : the 1851 journal of missionary George D. Watt /

"George Darling Watt was the first convert of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptized in the British Isles. He emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. He returned to the British Isles in 1846 as a missionary, accompanied by his wife and young son. He remained there until 1851,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Carruth, LaJean Purcell (Editor ), Watt, Ronald G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : George D. Watt
  • out of obscurity and into the light / Ronald G. Watt
  • Introduction : the Latter-day Saint gathering / Fred E. Woods
  • George D. Watt's Pitman shorthand and the process of transcription / LaJean Purcell Carruth
  • The Atlantic Ocean
  • The rivers
  • The trail
  • The end of the trail
  • 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.