Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062360
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 462

Get Book

Book Description
The best history of the Latter-Day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical afterword. "This is without a doubt the definitive Mormon history".--Library Journal.

Author: Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormons and Mormonism
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Get Book

Book Description

Author: David J. Whittaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Get Book

Book Description

Author: Gary Elliott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439671842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Get Book

Book Description
In 1849, a steamship named after President James Monroe headed from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The passengers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Philadelphia. At St. Louis, they were joined with a group of California gold diggers from Jeffersonville, Indiana. But their trip was interrupted when cholera broke out on board. Local fourteen-year-old James McHenry discovered the steamship after it landed at Jefferson City and observed the dead and dying victims along the riverbank. Author Gary Elliott details the history of the outbreak in the city and its far-reaching effects.

Author: Sally Denton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Get Book

Book Description
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally Denton makes a fiercely convincing argument that they were. The author–herself of Mormon descent–first traces the extraordinary emergence of the Mormons and the little-known nineteenth-century intrigues and tensions between their leaders and the U.S. government, fueled by the Mormons’ zealotry and exclusionary practices. We see how by 1857 they were unique as a religious group in ruling an entire American territory, Utah, and commanding their own exclusive government and army. Denton makes clear that in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, the church began placing the blame on a discredited Mormon, John D. Lee, and on various Native Americans. She cites contemporaneous records and newly discovered documents to support her argument that, in fact, the Mormon leader, Brigham Young, bore significant responsibility–that Young, impelled by the church’s financial crises, facing increasingly intense scrutiny and condemnation by the federal government, incited the crime by both word and deed. Finally, Denton explains how the rapidly expanding and enormously rich Mormon church of today still struggles to absolve itself of responsibility for what may well be an act of religious fanaticism unparalleled in the annals of American history. American Massacre is totally absorbing in its narrative as it brings to life a tragic moment in our history.

Author: Rod Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Get Book

Book Description
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Although it has been largely ignored by historians, it was the war waged against the Shoshoni tribe that opened the book on Indian massacres in the West. The Shoshoni were victims of a bloodbath more extreme than that at Wounded Knee, and more deadly than the more famous slaughter at Sand Creek.

Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ISBN: 1465118284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758

Get Book

Book Description
This manual covers the historical period of the Church from Joseph Smith to President Gordon B. Hinckley. For institute courses Religion 341, 342, and 343. Also useful for individual and family study.

Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Get Book

Book Description