[…] trees, and lifted cattle and people into the air. Figure 2: Claude-Louis Desrais, Caricature sur la comète de 1811 , National Library of France. Although Americans didn’t understand the cause of the 1816 weather […]
[…] him about reports of gambling, drinking, and womanizing by army officers and others at a Salt Lake City hotel Kinney owned. Surrounded by Young and a gathering of eleven senior Church leaders, businessmen, and […]
[…] producing works of quality had evoked a sympathetic response from Edgar Lee Masters among others, Ber nard De Voto wrote as follows: I defy Mr. Masters or anyone else to find one artist or […]
[…] perhaps even surpassing, the fondest dreams of those who had planned Nauvoo. Meanwhile, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Canada and Ohio, there were hundreds of faithful Saints in tiny, semi-isolated […]
[…] its traditional scope, and because the federal government has exercised power in areas formerly left to the city, the county, or the state. Actually, since the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601, in England and […]
[…] Peter. “A Bibliography of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York, Ohio, and Missouri,” BYU Studies, 12 (Summer 1972), 465-537. A highly informative description and discussion of 51 Mormon items […]
[…] In 1834, for instance, his volunteer army (known as Zion’s Camp) encountered Indian remains in Spring Hill, Missouri, where some of his men excavated a large mound. In it, they found a skeleton of […]
[…] eschatology. The history of the redemption of mankind was to include the Mormons’ own sacred cities in Missouri and Utah. So they proceeded to work out this religious history, suffering as earlier settlers had […]
[…] Spence Hey wood, 1850 to 1856 includes Martha’s accounts of the trek west, life among Salt Lake City’s leading families and the settling Salt Creek (Nephi). The Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, wife of the […]
A recent listener-response radio program in Salt Lake City discussed the death of a young father from bleeding ulcers. Believing it wrong to seek medical help, he had sought a cure from an herbal […]