Nels Anderson

NELS ANDERSON has earned the gratitude of Mormon scholars for his fascinating and incisive Desert Saints (University of Chicago Press, 1942; reprinted in paperback, 1966), which has introduced Mormon history to thousands of students.

Establishing the Kingdom Along the Little Colorado | Charles S. Peterson, Take up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870–1900

Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 2

Charles Peterson is a man of history who, like a sociologist, examines the changing aspirations and problems of the Mormons who lived along the Little Colorado during the latter part of the nineteenth century. I…