Synopsis
In response to the call to gather to Zion, new converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leave their homes, families, and native lands in Europe for an unknown future in an unknown land--America. Between the years of 1840 and 1890, at least 85,000 Mormon emigrants brave the treacherous oceans to come to America and then cross overland by steamer, railway, handcart, and covered wagon to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah.
In 1863 the Amazon sails from London to New York with 800 Latter-day Saints. On this voyage are seven unmarried, unrelated, young women who are traveling individually. The Priesthood leaders place them together as a family. Although they aren't related, as such, they are "Sisters in the gospel,” and together, they face the adventures, hardships, and dangers of a 5000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean and then across America to the Utah Territory.
In response to the call to gather to Zion, new converts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leave their homes, families, and native lands in Europe for an unknown future in an unknown land--America. Between the years of 1840 and 1890, at least 85,000 Mormon emigrants brave the treacherous oceans to come to America and then cross overland by steamer, railway, handcart, and covered wagon to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah.
In 1863 the Amazon sails from London to New York with 800 Latter-day Saints. On this voyage are seven unmarried, unrelated, young women who are traveling individually. The Priesthood leaders place them together as a family. Although they aren't related, as such, they are "Sisters in the gospel,” and together, they face the adventures, hardships, and dangers of a 5000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean and then across America to the Utah Territory.
