This brief note summarizes findings from two surveys taken among Mormons during 1967-1969, one in Salt Lake City and one in “Coastal City,” northern California. Among the questions asked was the following: Most of […]
[…] the best known version of that prophet’s life to date. While fictionalizing parts of Mormon history and de-emphasizing the Mormon leader’s commitment to plural marriage (motion picture codes strictly prohibited favorable screen treatment of […]
[…] for the American aborigines. While iron was not believed to be in common use, the noted Alexander De Humboldt, in his famous Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811) asserted that iron […]
[…] conflict was best captured by Vice President Schuyler Colfax, following a visit in 1869 to Salt Lake City: “It is time to understand whether the authority of Brigham Young is the supreme power in […]
[…] decade on the Underground, avoiding arrest for polygamy. They were able to return safely to Salt Lake City in 1897, where her eighth child and fifth daughter, Josephine, was born in 1898. Nick was […]
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[…] the Comoros the previous month, after stopping first at the neighboring Island of Johanna. It would not de part again until April 18. Its captain, William (a.k.a. Robert) Kidd, did not know he would […]
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[…] Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2009), 293//1981 LDS edition: D&C 88:15; emphasis mine, “and” is “&” in original. […]
[…] When the bottom dropped out from under the world price for silver, Darby went down to Park City, Utah, where he heard the silver mines were still hiring. A foreman at the Silver King […]