Fire on Ice
by Fred E. Woods
Available from the Icelandic Association of Utah
The story of Icelandic Latter-day Saints at home and abroad, Fire on Ice by Fred E. Woods is also available at the BYU Book Store and Seagull Book. Fred E. Woods is a professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He also holds the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding.
Fire on Ice the story of Icelandic Latter-day Saints at home and abroad. Who were the first Icelanders to willingly leave their beloved homeland and immigrate to the United States of America? Many people are surprised to learn these immigrants were Latter-day Saint converts eager to gather to Utah, the nineteenth-century Zion of the West. How did the message of the restored gospel come to the land of ice and fire? What made these converts so adventuous to make this lengthy Utah journey by sail, rail, and trail, and what challenges did they encounter trying to assimilate into a western American culture? These and other questions are addressed in this work, published to mark a dual sesquicentennial commemoration: the arrival of the first Icelandic Latter-day Saints in Utah, and the earlist settlement of Icelanders in the United States. Softcover, $15.95, 6 by 9 in.
ISBN 0-8425-2617-X; 404 pages.
Published by the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University.
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