Fred E. Woods augments the traditional overland history of Latter-day Saint migrations to Salt Lake City via handcart and wagon by detailing the arduous migrations of religious converts by ships and trains.
Fred E. Woods is a professor of religious education at Brigham Young University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including most recently Bright Lights in the Desert: The Latter-day Saints of Las Vegas and of (with Malcolm Adcock) The Latter-day Saint Image in the British Mind.
