In 1904 Brigham H. Roberts published The Latter-day
Saints’ Tour from Palmyra, New York, to Salt Lake
City: Through the Stereoscope, hoping to highlight
the accomplishments of his people in building up a
new Zion despite a history of hardship. Gathering
a series of thirty-eight stereoscopic images, Roberts
guided the reader through three-dimensional photos
of the faith’s most notable prophet-leaders and
historic church sites. From Joseph Smith’s childhood
home through Nauvoo and eventually to Salt Lake
City, Roberts invited the reader to celebrate the LDS
role in American history.
In this new edition, editors Steven and Ben
Richardson compile Roberts’s original text and
images and present them in stereoscopic 3-D with
accompanying red/cyan glasses, allowing a new generation
of readers to experience Roberts’s tour. Follow
the Latter-day Saints from Palmyra to Salt Lake,
each stop accompanied by a 3-D image and Roberts’s
accessible and timeless storytelling expertise. The
perfect addition to the library of every LDS or Utah
historian, A 3-D Tour of Latter-day Saint History
brings Roberts’s love of history back to life.
Roberts was a prominent LDS teacher, editor,
historian, and politician. He served the church in a
number of ways, but is most often remembered for
his six-volume Comprehensive History of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The original stereoscopic
book was published in 1904.
