On the Trail of the Twentieth-Century Mormon Outmigration

Authors

G. Wesley Johnson
Marian Ashby Johnson

Keywords

Mormon studies, Mormon outmigration, Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project

Abstract

This article gives an overview of a major history research project that is now coming to a close after twenty years of activity. It is the Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project, sponsored by the Marriott School of Management. Its focus has been to study the great urban outmigration of the twentieth century, as members of the Latter-day Saint community moved from traditional Mormon lands to all four corners of the United States in search of employment and education. The project has compiled in-depth case studies of individuals and families who migrated to twenty “target cities” across the nation (table 1). Their stories furnish the evidence to enable the tracing and analysis of this outmigration and suggest that it was the dominant social movement of LDS society in the twentieth century.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, G. Wesley and Johnson, Marian Ashby (2007) "On the Trail of the Twentieth-Century Mormon Outmigration," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 46: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol46/iss1/2