
Restless Pilgrim
Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-day Saint History
University of Illinois Press
Published on 29. March 2022
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-252-04422-9 (ISBN)
Description
Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jenson tirelessly carried out his office's archival mission and advocated for fixed recordkeeping to become a duty for Latter-day Saints. Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno offer a new in-depth study of Jenson's long life and career. Their account follows Jenson from his arrival as a Danish immigrant to 1860s Utah through trips around the world to secure documents from far-flung missions, and on to his public life as a newspaper columnist and interpreter of LDS history. Throughout, Jenson emerges as a figure dedicated to the belief that recorded history united past and present Latter-day Saints in heaven and on earth--and for all eternity. Engaging and informed, Restless Pilgrim is a groundbreaking study of an important figure in Latter-day Saint intellectual life during a transformative era in Church history.
Reviews / Votes
"Restless Pilgrim: Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-day Saint History provides a fast-paced walk through the life of this seminal Latter-day Saint historian, and his relentless thirst to gather as much history of the early Saints as possible." --Journal of Mormon HistoryMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
13 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-04422-9 (9780252044229)
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Persons
Reid L. Neilson has served as the Assistant Church Historian and Recorder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is an award-winning author and editor of dozens of books on the Latter-day Saints, and coeditor of Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions. Scott D. Marianno is an historian in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and coeditor of A Voice in the Wilderness: The 1888-1930 General Conference Sermons of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1
1 Danish American Emigrant 7
2 Entrepreneurial Chronicler 29
3 Historian's Office Affiliate 50
4 Itinerant World Traveler 79
5 Assistant Church Historian 104
6 Elder and Emissary 121
7 Scandinavian Mission President 140
8 Modern Record Keeper 165
9 Explorer of Latin America 183
10 Public Commemorator 203
11 Twilight Church Historian 221
Epilogue 240
Notes 247
Bibliography 293
Index 309
Prologue 1
1 Danish American Emigrant 7
2 Entrepreneurial Chronicler 29
3 Historian's Office Affiliate 50
4 Itinerant World Traveler 79
5 Assistant Church Historian 104
6 Elder and Emissary 121
7 Scandinavian Mission President 140
8 Modern Record Keeper 165
9 Explorer of Latin America 183
10 Public Commemorator 203
11 Twilight Church Historian 221
Epilogue 240
Notes 247
Bibliography 293
Index 309