Alan Kent Powell

Emigrant Guides | Stanley B. Kimball, ed., The Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide by W. Clayton

The story of the western movement runs deep in American and Mormon history. The rolling of wagons west toward Oregon, California, and Utah is as basic to our national experience as Plymouth Rock and Independence…

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Politicians, Mormons, Utah, and Statehood | Edward Leo Lyman, Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood

Few states in the union had a longer or more bitterly contested statehood struggle than did Utah. Edward Leo Lyman has searched out and chronicled the detail, factors, and individuals which make up the drama in…

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New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century St. George | Larry M. Logue, A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah

A Sermon in the Desert should be taken seriously by those interested in early St. George and in the workings of polygamy and family life in a small nineteenth-century Utah community. It offers to local…

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A Teenager’s Mormon Battalion Journal: The Gold Rush Diary of Azariah Smith edited by David L. Bigler

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