'Peaceful, Industrious and Law-Abiding People'
In 1860, the great British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton traveled to New York and Washington, D.C., then made his way across the continent to Utah. The book he wrote about his journey, “City of the Saints,” is a rambling collection of observations and interviews by a man who had explored unknown corners of Africa and the Orient, studying languages, customs and faiths wherever he traveled. Now he wanted to know what Mormons and Mormonism were all about.


