| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1 | The History Cooperative

Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream. By Clive Scott Chisholm. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 406 pp. Maps, place index. $34.95.)
The American Dream and its older cousin, Manifest Destiny, launched a gypsy people on an expansionist course ever westward. Individuals, families, and groups abandoned one dream east of the Missouri River and grabbed another that propelled them on a new quest. The Mormons were no exception, and it is worth retracing their footsteps from Winter Quarters (Omaha) to Salt Lake City in the company of Scott Chisholm while he ruminates on "Dream," past, present, and his own.	1
A communications professor retired from Utah State University and a displaced Canadian brought up in the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ), the branch of Mormons that did not follow Brigham Young west, Chisholm has his own ghosts to exorcise. As the title suggests, he did not find the god that the Mormons followed to their Promised Land the right one for himself, but he is nevertheless intrigued by their dream and those of others who traveled toward the setting sun by foot, wagon, or mule before the completion of the transcontinental railroad.	. . .

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