Ronald Dennis
RON DENNIS teaches Portuguese and Welsh at Brigham Young University. He has conducted extensive research on the Mormon movement in nineteenth century Wales, and has written a book about the first Welsh Mormon emigration in 1849, and a second about Welsh Mormon bi
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Captain Dan Jones and the Welch Indians
The first group of Welsh converts to Mormonism arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 26 October 1849 after a voyage of more than eight months. They had buried more than one-fifth of their number…
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