e Inspiration,” a movement that originated in Germany, moved westward from New York in 1855 and established the Amana colonies in east-central Iowa, it practiced a form of communal theocracy. Between 1852-1855, 10,000 migrants received their assistance. Of the 22,000 converts traveling to the Salt Lake Valley through 1855, 19,500 were from Great Britain, 2,000 were Scandinavians, and the rest were French, Italian, and German. (Chronicle of America; American Eras; Encarta Encyclopedia) In 1851, Lewis Henry Morgan’s study of the Iroquois was published. Audubon begins publishing “The Vivaparous Quadrapeds of North America.” The Pacific Railroad and the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers conducted a series of expeditionary surveys in the Northwest until 1855. In 1854, G.K. Warren compiled all known geographic information into a map of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. John Boardman Trask’s geological report on the agricultural and mineral resources of the coastal mountains is presented to the state legislature of California. In 1857, J.S. Newsberry, a geologist for the Pacific Railroad, investigated shell beds and alluvial plains on the West coast and inferred that the Oregon Cascades once had been covered by an ice cap; this led to the study into the geologic origins of North America. (Chronicle of America; American Eras) In1850, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) began writing their first newspaper, “The Deseret News,” in Salt Lake City. Frederick Douglass renamed his paper “Frederick Douglass’ Paper” and it won’t be published until 1860. The phrase, “Go West, Young Man. Go West!,” originally written by John Soule of the “Terre Haute Express,” is popularized by New York Time editor Horace Greeley, one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the nineteenth century. The Col...
