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Book Fred Bennett  the Mormon Detective

Download or read book Fred Bennett the Mormon Detective written by Fred E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fred Bennett  the Mormon Detective

Download or read book Fred Bennett the Mormon Detective written by Fred E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pinkerton Detective Series

Download or read book The Pinkerton Detective Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Founder of Mormonism

Download or read book The Founder of Mormonism written by Woodbridge Riley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Everett D  Graff Collection of Western Americana

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Book Marked for Life

Download or read book Marked for Life written by A. Frank Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Convicting the Mormons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janiece Johnson
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2023-04-06
  • ISBN : 1469673541
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Convicting the Mormons written by Janiece Johnson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Meadows, Utah. News of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it became known, sent shockwaves through the western frontier of the United States, reaching the nation's capital and eventually crossing the Atlantic. In the years prior to the massacre, Americans dubbed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the "Mormon problem" as it garnered national attention for its "unusual" theocracy and practice of polygamy. In the aftermath of the massacre, many Americans viewed Mormonism as a real religious and physical threat to white civilization. Putting the Mormon Church on trial for its crimes against American purity became more important than prosecuting those responsible for the slaughter. Religious historian Janiece Johnson analyzes how sensational media attention used the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to enflame public sentiment and provoke legal action against Latter-day Saints. Ministers, novelists, entertainers, cartoonists, and federal officials followed suit, spreading anti-Mormon sentiment to collectively convict the Mormon religion itself. This troubling episode in American religious history sheds important light on the role of media and popular culture in provoking religious intolerance that continues to resonate in the present.

Book A Blonde Creole

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  • Author : Alice Howard Hilton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book A Blonde Creole written by Alice Howard Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mormon Detective   Or  Adventures in the West

Download or read book The Mormon Detective Or Adventures in the West written by Fred E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through Mighty Waters Saved

Download or read book Through Mighty Waters Saved written by Duke Bailie and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Massacre

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  • Author : Sally Denton
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307424723
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book American Massacre written by Sally Denton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Book The Mormon Detective  Or  Adventures in the West     Mormonism Unmasked

Download or read book The Mormon Detective Or Adventures in the West Mormonism Unmasked written by Fred E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1900* with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Works in the Library Relating to the Mormons

Download or read book List of Works in the Library Relating to the Mormons written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Foreign Kingdom

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  • Author : Christine Talbot
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2013-12-30
  • ISBN : 0252095359
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book A Foreign Kingdom written by Christine Talbot and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage, family structure, and American identity. In particular, Talbot examines "the Mormon question" with attention to how it constructed ideas about American citizenship around the presumed separation of the public and private spheres. Contrary to the prevailing notion of man as political actor, woman as domestic keeper, and religious conscience as entirely private, Mormons enfranchised women and framed religious practice as a political act. The way Mormonism undermined the public/private divide led white, middle-class Americans to respond by attacking not just Mormon sexual and marital norms but also Mormons' very fitness as American citizens. Poised at the intersection of the history of the American West, Mormonism, and nineteenth-century culture and politics, this carefully researched exploration considers the ways in which Mormons and anti-Mormons both questioned and constructed ideas of the national body politic, citizenship, gender, the family, and American culture at large.