Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death—but unique in American history for its

Was in most ways similar to that of other emigrants, the religious motivations, tight organization, and family groups of the Mormons gave their migration a dist

From its beginning in 1846, this 22-year- long Mormon exodus from Illinois to the final promised landis one of the most extraordinary chapters in the history of

"Between the mid 1840s and late 1860s, around 5,000 Welsh people, inspired by the Mormon faith, ventured to start a new life in the United States...seeking thei

Beginning with their expulsion from Nauvoo in 1846 and for the succeeding twenty-two years, the migration of Mormon pioneerssome 70,000 of themwas a compelling