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Balduin Mollhausen, whose three trips to the American West between 1851 and 1858 formed the background for a successful career as a novelist.
Title page of Jacob Schiel's Reise durch die Felsengebirge ( J o u r n e y t h r o u g h t h e R o c k y Mountains), one of the earliest travel narratives to give an account of Utah and the Mormons.
The Image of Utah and the Mormons In Nineteenth-Century Germany BY D. L. A S H L I M A N
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he love of the Germans for adventure, exotic lands, and little-known civilizations has manifested itself in many ways for many centuries. In the latter half of the nineteenth century this romantic inclination was Mr. Ashliman is a graduate of the University of Utah and a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University. He is presently at the University of Gottingen under a grant from the German government collecting data for his dissertation, "The Image of the American West in NineteenthCentury Germany."
