A persecuted church that walked a thousand miles and built a desert commonwealth.
Utah statehood (4 January 1896) folded the commonwealth into the United States — the end of Deseret as a distinct polity, though the church counts ~17.9 million members worldwide today.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Mormon Settlement (Deseret) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1839 · 1846 · 1849 · 1851.
The standard one-volume scholarly survey of LDS history from founding through the 20th century, covering the migration, Deseret, and colonization.
The definitive study of the Mormon cooperative economy, irrigation colonization, and the building of the Deseret commonwealth in the Great Basin.
A rigorous modern biography of the leader who directed the exodus, founded Salt Lake City, and orchestrated the colonization corridor.
The most thoroughly documented account of the 1857 massacre and the Utah War context, written with access to LDS archives.
The classic narrative history of the Chihuahua and Sonora colonies founded in the 1880s as polygamist refuges at the southern end of the corridor.
The canonical literary novel of Mormon settlement, following a plural wife through the founding of St. George, Utah in the Deseret era.