Book Description:

The dream of building a true kingdom of God was foremost in the minds of many of those who first settled on this continent, and a dominating force in early American pioneering ventures. Thus the dream of the Mormons, often regarded as peculiar in our history, was really only a part of a larger dream, and their experiment in group economics, their trials and errors and successes, can be looked upon as a more explicit formulation of the total American experience. The economic aspect of Mormon life is one of the most interesting and significant of all, and a close study of it, which Great Basin Kingdom gives for the first time, opens up whole new areas of meaning. A thorough description of the problems, policies, and institutions of the Mormons not only develops into a fast-moving, dramatic story of dedication and deeds, but becomes, in a larger sense, an important case study in economic history, economic policy, and the economics of religion in the American Far West.

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