On the Way to Somewhere Else

by Homer, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780874809947
• ISBN10: 0874809940
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Summary

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 "seventeen-strong families with only one man! " This collection of the writings of some of those European travelers broke new ground by ignoring the tradition of incorporating only the predictably benign views of English gentlemen. It includes such colorful perspectives towards the Mormons as those of an outraged Italian Catholic priest, an intrigued German prince, a liberated Frenchwoman, and a devout French convert, many of who had visits with the man they called the "Pope of Mormonism," Brigham Young. The European visitors encountered not only devout Mormons, but other lively characters of the American West, from fur traders to Indians to soldiers.

Author Biography

Michael W. Homer is a Sale Lake City attorney, chair of Utah Board of State History, and Honorary Italian Vice Consul.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 13
Editorial Procedures and Translations	p. 21
Introduction	p. 23
"The Mobmonites":The First European Observers, 1830–46	p. 29
Alexander Philipp Maximilian: They Complained Bitterly
Samuele Carlo Mazzuchelli: To See and Speak with a Heresiarch
Albert Karl Koch: A Place I Had Wished to See for a Long Time
Alexander Ziegler: The Completed Temple Was Arranged as a Barracks
Pierre-Jean De Smet: Mr. Young, an Affable and Very Polite Gendeman
"Polygamy is a Sword of Damocles": Overland Travelers in Utah, 1849–55	p. 47
Leonetto Cipriani: We Don't Think Polygamy Can Last for Long
Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Schiel: I Saw Not a Single Beautiful Woman
Jules Remy: More Power Than Any Potentate in the World
"Gathering to Zion": European Converts in Utah	p. 85
Stephen Malan: The Test Was a Severe One
Daniel Bertoch: Oh How Toff He Was–John Ahmanson: Joyfully We Drove in to Zion
Louis Bercrand: Everyone Flew to Arms
"But Brigham Young is Still Governor": Mormonism's Secular Control, 1859-69	p. 115
Israel Joseph Benjamin: The Heart of Mormon Country
Enrico Besana:The New Road of Iron Will Destroy this Anomaly
Olympe de Joaral Audouard: An Enourmous Caravan, Including Some Ladies
"The King of the New Jerusalem": Riding the Rails through Utah, 1869–77	p. 147
Joseph Alexander, Baron von Hubnet: Sovereign of the Desert
Rudolph Schleiden: He Disapproved When Any Mormon Drank Wine or Beer
Louis Laurent Simonin: Stenhouse Promised to Introduce His Two Wives
Max Joseph August Heinrich Markus Buchner: Brigham Young Sac on His Sofa Slumped Down
Victor-Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefon-Lucay: Mr. Stenhouse Resolved to "Confine" Us
Francesco Varvaro Pojero: He Would Convert You Immediately
Baron Arnold de Woelmont: One of die Most Astonishing Figures of Our Time
"Excursions in My Own Mind": European Fantasy Accounts of the Mormon West	p. 187
Paul Duplessis: Abandon Ail Hope of Leaving
Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen: Polygamy is Common amongst Them
Juies Verne: At a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, A Course of Mormon History
Albert Robida: They Were Too Tired of the Solitary Life
Karl Friedrich May: We Will Not Give Up
Emilb Salgari: Strange Rituals and Polygamy
Guillaume Apollinaire: So Much Fertidity after the Sterility of the Salt Desert
Pierre Benoit Let Me Remind You… I am Infallible
"The Country of Apotheoses": The First European Visitors to Southern Utah	p. 259
Th. Gr. [Anonymous]: Mormons are Communists
Albert Tissandier: Wild, Forsaken Places
Carlo Gardini: A Little Worried the Indians Would Scalp Me
"The Many Scandinavians Who Live in Utah": Northern Literary Lights in the Mormon West	p. 303
Vilhelm Kristian Sigurd Topsoe: The Era of Mormonism is Irrecoverably Over
Jonas Jons-son Scadling: Mormons Pay for Theatre Tickets with Watermelons
Paul Peter Waldenstrom: Here Comes Satan!
Paukis Henrfk Cavling: You Have Seen God's Face
"Bitter, Salt, and Hopeless": The Last Struggle for Statehood, 1878–96	p. 519
Charles-Louis-Franjois André: An Undulating Plain Garnished with Sauges en Brousailbs
Rudolph Meyer: A Lot Can Be Learned from the Mormons
Giovanni Vigna dal Ferro: Do Not Believe That the Mormons are Savages
Friedetick Martin von Bodenstedt: A Variety of Things Are Missing Here
Gabriel-Paul-Othenin de Cléron, Comte d'Haussonville: Polygamy–That's What Always Troubles the Gentiles
Stéphane JousseW I Demand to See the Women
"Americans Like All the Others": Accommodation after Statehood, 1896–1930	p. 343
Jules Huret: Christians with Mohammedan Instincts
G. A. Zimmer: Such Blind Fanatical Zeal
David Bosio: I Was Lucky Enough to be Able to Gather Many Waldensians
Comtesse Madeleine and Mile. Jacqueline de Bryas: The Mormons Looked Jusst Like All Other Human Beings
Zopito Valentini: I Did Raise the Subject of Polygamy
Afterword. "Hunters of the Picturesque": Utah in the Twenty-first Century	p. 377
Bibliography	p. 385
Index	p. 409
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