{"product_id":"liverpool-to-great-salt-lake-lajean-purcell-carruth-9781496229878","title":"Liverpool to Great Salt Lake: The 1851 Journal of Missionary George D. Watt","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lajean Purcell Carruth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496229878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496229878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Lajean Purcell Carruth","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054397681919,"sku":"9781496229878","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4d91752-4fd6-40ee-aa16-688044da4457.jpg?v=1685029733","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liverpool-to-great-salt-lake-lajean-purcell-carruth-9781496229878","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}