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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,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.