Juanita Brooks

JUANITA LEAVITT BROOKS, a well-known scholar and writer, is the author of Mountain Meadows Massacre and biographies of Dudley Leavitt and John D. Lee, and editor (with Robert Cleland) of the diaries of John D. Lee and Hosea Stout. Her most recent book, Uncle Will, is a biography of her husband.

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Articles/Essays – Volume 01, No. 2

On Mormon Theology | Riding Herd (Excerpt from a Letter) | Production of Plays with Mormon Themes | Improving the Gospel Doctrine Class

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I Married a Family

Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 2

I often spoke in jest of our “Compound-Complex Family,” but I was firm in my resolution to make this marriage and our family life a success. I well knew that I could never have the…

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Riding Herd: A Conversation with Juanita Brooks

Articles/Essays – Volume 09, No. 1

Elsewhere in this issue Robert Flanders speaks of the New Mormon History as having begun in 1945 with the publication of Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History. While Brodie’s book is certainly pivotal, an…

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