For many German-speaking immigrants Liverpool was the point of departure for the U.S. and, ultimately, Utah. USHS collections.
Die Auswanderung BY D O U G L A S D. A L D E R
I HE SETTLEMENT OF THE AMERICAN W E S T was mainly the result of individual enterprise, but there were also group experiments. This individual versus group dichotomy can be seen by contrasting the fortune seekers who rushed to the California gold fields with the Icarians who went to the Napa and Sonoma valleys to set up a Utopian community. 1 One could similarly contrast the thousands in Dr. Alder is professor of history and geography at Utah State University. 'Robert V. Hine, California's Utopian Colonies (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1953), chapter 4. Interestingly, these Icarians came to California from Nauvoo, Illinois, a town they occupied in 1849 after the Mormons departed.
