The Sail before the Trail or Have we Missed the Boat? Latter-day Saint Maritime Immigration to America in the 19thCentury

Authors

Fred Woods, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow

Keywords

Mormon Studies, Latter-day Saint Immigration, maritime immigration

Abstract

“I left the home of my birth to gather. . . . The company with which I was to sail was all strangers to me. When I arrived at Liverpool and saw the ocean that would soon roll between me and all I loved, my heart almost failed me. But I had laid my idols all upon the altar. There was no turning back. . . . So I thus alone set out for the reward of everlasting life, trusting in God.”¹

Original Publication Citation

Fred E. Woods, “The Sail before the Trail or Have we Missed the Boat? Latter-day Saint Maritime Immigration to America in the 19thCentury, The Ephemera Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (May, 2019), 1, 4-9.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Woods, Fred, "The Sail before the Trail or Have we Missed the Boat? Latter-day Saint Maritime Immigration to America in the 19thCentury" (2019). Faculty Publications. 5613.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/5613

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2019-5

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/8345

Publisher

Ephemera Journal

Language

English

College

Religious Education

Department

Church History and Doctrine

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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