The Black Door
April 18, 2018[…] be so sure that it wasn’t Angelica herself who switched the cups?” I repeated the question, Angélica de mi alma, although I knew already that it wasn’t true. I had seen from your eyes […]
[…] be so sure that it wasn’t Angelica herself who switched the cups?” I repeated the question, Angélica de mi alma, although I knew already that it wasn’t true. I had seen from your eyes […]
[…] blood; we all need that. It takes a lot of suffering sometimes before most people are will ing to let the Lord teach them anything, and some never are. . . . Dale, he […]
[…] “they have to forsake squaw dances and ceremonies and Sunday rodeos and picnics and good old Garden de Luxe. All the things that make life enjoyable. And for what? The promise of eternal life? […]
[…] man by the name of John Evans. Although Evans’s six-year search was unsuccessful, the dream of find ing Welsh Indians did not die (Deacon 1966,137-50). Captain Dan Jones, so titled even in religious settings […]
[…] thirteen children. Her great-grandfather had been born about 1855 and had hidden with his people in Canyon de Chelly when the American cavalry under Christopher (Kit) Carson in 1863, in an effort to subdue […]
[…] Saints from deserting the valleys of Utah for the golden flesh pots of California while secretly dispatch ing “gold missions” to the diggings to ac quire the liquid capital necessary for the economic establishment […]
[…] elevation by means of faulting. (A fault is a fracture in the earth’s crust along which oppos ing sides of the crust have moved.) Movement along some faults has been measured in thousands of […]
[…] before the adoption of our third baby swept me suddenly back to square one. If it was a setback, it was the happiest one imaginable. Now, however, poised between treatment for a serious illness […]
[…] happens in frequently. In my time in the state, I can think of only one non-Mormon hold ing a high political office. In 1983, according to Gottlieb and Wiley, America’s Saints: The Rise of […]
[…] wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourn ing, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though […]