Author: Hope A. Hilton
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ISBN: 9780941214674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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William Adams (Wild Bill) Hickman was one of the most notorious outlaws of the nineteenth-century American frontier. During the 1840s and 1850s, he served as a trusted aide and spy to LDS church presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Hickman left an indelible impact on the history and myth of the West as a rough, undisciplined frontiersman who nevertheless helped to establish the Rocky Mountain kingdom of the Mormons.
Author: William Adams Hickman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387039172
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The controversial memoir 'Brigham's Destroying Angel' caused a huge rift in the Mormon Church upon its release in 1872 and had a powerful effect on the church's reputation. 'Wild' Bill Hickman's book chronicles his life as a member of the Mormon church and his reputed position as Brigham Young's hatchet-man. Accused at the time of mass-murder, Hickman shares the details of the horrific crimes he committed, which he controversially claims were ordered by Brigham Young. This new 2017 edition of 'Brigham's Destroying Angel' includes an introduction and appendix.
Author: William Adams Hickman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: John Hanson Beadle
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ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Author: William Adams Hickman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781387906000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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William Hickman's memoirs, famous for exposing the inner workings of the Mormon church as it was during the mid-19th century, are available here complete with the original appendices. A sensation upon their original release in 1872, the evocatively titled Brigham's Destroying Angel chronicles William Hickman's life as he traverses the ranks of the Mormon Church, which was at the time led by its second President, Brigham Young. Bill Hickman portrays Brigham as charismatic but controlling preacher, with sermons used to keep his followers and fellow settlers of the West in line. Hickman himself was a professional gunslinger, responsible for numerous assassinations which he confesses in this book. He was also a polygamist, having married a total of ten wives during his time in the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In 1868 Hickman was excommunicated from the church, and a few years he was later charged with murder. Following his arrest, Hickman was held under guard in an early form of witness protection.
Author: William Adams Hickman
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Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Author: William Adams Hickman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540621689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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William Hickman's memoirs, famous for exposing the inner workings of the Mormon church as it was during the mid-19th century, are available here complete with the original appendices. A sensation upon their original release in 1872, the evocatively titled Brigham's Destroying Angel chronicles William Hickman's life as he traverses the ranks of the Mormon Church, which was at the time led by its second President, Brigham Young. Bill Hickman portrays Brigham as charismatic but controlling preacher, with sermons used to keep his followers and fellow settlers of the West in line. Hickman himself was a professional gunslinger, responsible for numerous assassinations which he confesses in this book. He was also a polygamist, having married a total of ten wives during his time in the Church of Latter-Day Saints. In 1868 Hickman was excommunicated from the ranks of the church, and a few years he was later charged with murder. Following his arrest, Hickman was held under military guard in an early form of witness protection. Although easy to dismiss out of hand as mere falsehood or exaggeration, William Hickman's memoirs were considered to be of some value by several of his former associates and the federal authorities. His implication of Brigham Young as being the man who ordered the murder of Richard Yates was notorious - despite his willingness to testify against the Mormon church, nothing came of Hickman's allegations and he was eventually released from custody.
Author: William Adams Hickman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781976180750
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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This is the autobiographical account of Bill Hickman, Chief of the Destroying Angels, Head Danite, etc. After Mr. Beadle began to examine the history of the Mormon church; and while all the Mormon people spoke of Bill Hickman as a desperately bad man, and guilty of untold murders, he was struck by two curious and then unexplainable facts.The first was that while everybody, from Brigham Young down, united in calling Hickman a murderer, and while evidence could easily be collected of several of his crimes, not a single attempt has been made by priest or people to bring him to justice. The second point is that long after Hickman was known as a murderer, he was successively promoted to a number of offices; he was Sheriff and Representative of one county, Assessor and Collector of Taxes, and Marshal; and during all this time he was on terms of personal intimacy with Brigham Young.
Author: Hope A. Hilton
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ISBN:
Category : Brigham's destroying angel
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Biography of "Wild Bill" Hickman, member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, frontiersman, polygamist, aide to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (1840s and 1850s), supposed Danite, Indian fighter, horse thief, guerrilla fighter in the Utah War of 1857-58, and purported author of Brigham's destroying angel. Eventually he was excommunicated from the LDS Church and called an outlaw.
Author: Bill Hickman
Publisher: Digireads.Com
ISBN: 9781420929898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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"Brigham's Destroying Angel" is the life, confession, and startling disclosures of the notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah, as written by himself, with explanatory notes by J. H. Beadle, Esq., of Salt Lake City. "Brigham's Destroying Angel" is a shocking historical account of the beginnings of the Mormon religion.
