| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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, when he led a group of emigrant converts to Salt Lake City, Utah. Watt recorded his journey from Liverpool to Chimney Rock in Pitman shorthand. Remarkably, his journal wasn't discovered until 2001-and is transcribed and appearing for the first time in this book. Watt's journal provides an important glimpse into the transatlantic nature of Latter-day Saint migration to Salt Lake City. In 1850 there were more Latter-day Saints in England than in the United States, but by 1890 more than eighty-five thousand converts had crossed the Atlantic and made their way to Salt Lake City. Watt's 1851 journal opens a window into those overseas, riverine, and overland journeys. His spirited accounts provide wide-ranging details about the births, marriages, deaths, Sunday sermons, interpersonal relations, weather, and food and water shortages of the journey, as well as the many logistical complexities."-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881 -- Diaries.
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Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881 -- Travel.
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Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881 -- Travel. |
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Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881 -- Diaries. |
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Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwp3hjg8vqr8RH6pGB773 |
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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- England -- Diaries.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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Travel |
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Latter Day Saint missionaries |
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England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C |
| Genre/Form |
Diary
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diaries.
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Diaries
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Diaries.
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| Added Author |
Carruth, LaJean Purcell, editor.
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Watt, Ronald G., editor.
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Woods, Fred E., writer of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carruth, LaJean Purcell. Liverpool to Great Salt Lake. Lincoln : Nebraska, ©2022 9781496229878 |
| ISBN |
9781496231697 (electronic book) |
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1496231694 (electronic book) |
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9781496231680 (electronic bk.) |
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1496231686 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496229878 |
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1496229878 |
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