Download or read book Brigham Young king of the Utah Pandemonium A short account of the Mormons written by John Benjamin FRANKLIN and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire written by Frank Jenne Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigham Young written by Cory Gideon Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Brigham Young, from his Vermont childhood to his rise as the leader of the Mormon Church.
Download or read book The Life of Brigham Young written by Edward H. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigham Young written by William R. Sanford and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines Brigham Young, including his childhood and early life, becoming the leader of the Mormon Church, leading his followers to the Great Salt Lake, his family, and his legacy as an American pioneer"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigham Young written by John G. Turner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical exposé, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion. After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic. Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West.
Download or read book Brigham Young written by Leonard J. Arrington and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people and his church for thirty years, who combined piety and the pursuit of power to leave an indelible stamp on Mormon society and the culture of the Western frontier. From polygamy to the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the attempted preservation of Young’s Great Basin Kingdom, we are given a fresh understanding of the controversies that plagued Young in his contentious relations with the federal government. Brigham Young draws its subject out of the marginal place in history to which the conventional wisdom has assigned him, and sets him squarely in the American mainstream, a figure of abiding influence in our society to this day.
Download or read book Brigham Young written by Morris Robert Werner and published by New York, Harcourt Brace. This book was released on 1925 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mormon Prophet and His Harem written by Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith written by Thomas G. Alexander and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah’s first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801–77) shaped a religion, a migration, and the American West. He led the Saints to Utah, guided the establishment of 350 settlements, and inspired the Mormons as they weathered unimaginable trials and hardships. Although he generally succeeded, some decisions, especially those regarding the Mormon Reformation and the Black Hawk War, were less than sound. In this new biography, historian Thomas G. Alexander draws on a lifetime of research to provide an evenhanded view of Young and his leadership. Following the murder in 1844 of church founder Joseph Smith, Young bore a heavy responsibility: ensuring the survival and expansion of the church and its people. Alexander focuses on Young’s leadership, his financial dealings, his relations with non-Mormons, his families, and his own deep religious conviction. Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith addresses such controversial issues as the practice of polygamy (Young himself had fifty-five wives), relations and conflicts between Mormons and Indians, and the circumstances and aftermath of the horrific events of Mountain Meadows in 1857. Although Young might have done better, Alexander argues that he bore no direct responsibility for the tragedy. Young relied on the counsel of his associates, and at times, the Mormon people pushed back to prevent him from implementing changes. In some cases, such as polygamy and the doctrine of blood atonement, the church leadership eventually rejected his views. Yet on the whole, Brigham Young emerges as a multifaceted human figure, and as a prophet revered by millions of LDS members, an inspired leader who successfully led his people to a distant land where their community expanded and flourished.
Download or read book Leaves of Truth written by John Phillips Meakin and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life Story of Brigham Young written by Susa Young Gates and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood of the Prophets written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.
Download or read book Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire Classic Reprint written by Frank J. Cannon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire The man who could achieve these things, even with some aid from fortune, was a man of no common calibre. Without a day of military training, he be came a very efficient general-in - chief to his people, Without an hour's reading of law, he made himself judge and Iawgiver - and in the main a just one - for a whole community. Where his own knowledge was deficient, he had skill to use the ability of others; and to this day, the finances, the government, the merchan dising, the architecture, the social life, and even the agriculture of the Mormon community bear the stamp put upon them by Brigham Young. He matched his wits against the might of the United States government, and did not come off second best. He yielded in outward seeming to federal power; but in reality he was emperor of his little realm to the hour of his death, and his subjects never doubted his supremacy. He drove federal appointees in disgrace from his kingdom, and took their positions for himself and his favourites. No matter how over whelming the power with which he was dealing, Brigham Young never was a suppliant. He stormed, bullied, lied, intrigued, finessed, cajoled; he never pleaded for mercy nor owned himself in need of mercy. He met chastisement with fresh provocation. Knowing polygamy to be the most offensive of his sins in the eyes of the nation, he lived openly with a score of wives, sent his most honoured polygamous apostle to Congress as a territorial delegate, and per mitted his subordinate priests to debate with Christian clergymen on the divinity of plural marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Brigham Young written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, as part of its Sesquicentennial celebration with the Faith in Every Footstep campaign, presents biographical information on American religious leader Brigham Young (1801-1877). Young led the migration of Mormons to the Salt Lake Valley area of Utah in the 1840s and was elected president of the church in 1847. Young also served as the first territorial governor of Utah.
