Coming to Zion (Byu Studies Monographs)

Bys: James B. Allen and John W. Welch

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842523472
• ISBN13: 9780842523479
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Brigham Young Univ Univ Pubns
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An impressive collection

This collection of essays and one poem celebrates the 1997 sesquicentennial of the Mormon settling of the Great Basin. The editors have reprinted articles taken from _BYU Studies_ over about a twenty-year period. The editors did an excellent job in the selection and placement of the articles, which are grouped generally by theme. Virtually no aspect of the Mormon migration is left untouched in this work. Selected photographs, drawings, and maps fill out the work.Except for the opening essay by Elder M. Russell Ballard and the poem by Dian Saderup Monson, these essays are solid scholarly works. The essays by Leonard J. Arrington, Lewis Clark Christian, Stanley B. Kimball, Richard E. Bennett, and John Devitry-Smith deserve particular notice. Elder Ballard originally gave his essay as a talk to the BYU Studies Academy. It is the sort of talk one would expect at General Conference - including the anti-intellectual undertone. Lawrence G. Coates' essay was an amalgamation of two articles. Printing them separately would have been better; the amalgamation left some redundancies and required a citation to the original articles anyway. The publishers printed the reproduced images too darkly.Those quibbles aside, this is one of the finest collections of essays I have read. Anyone interested in the Mormon pioneers cannot afford to miss this work.