Ronald Dennis

RON DENNIS teaches Portuguese and Welsh at Brigham Young University. He has conducted extensive research on the Mormon movement in nineteenth century Wales, and has written a book about the first Welsh Mormon emigration in 1849, and a second about Welsh Mormon bi

Captain Dan Jones and the Welch Indians

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 4

The first group of Welsh converts to Mormonism arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 26 October 1849 after a voyage of more than eight months. They had buried more than one-fifth of their number…