[…] from the 1820s to 1879. During this period the social and political institutions that would stamp the developing nation with a distinctively American character became either codified by law, accepted by custom, or imposed […]
[…] January, Bigler noted in his journal that “some kind of mettle was found looks like goald” (Gud de 1962, viii; Extracts, 1932, 95). While he almost certainly had no idea of the significance of […]
[…] to Brigham Young in which he expressed his dismay at the persecutions the Mormons had suffered in Missouri and Illinois and revealed his “serious thoughts of making Salt Lake City my future residence” to […]
Minerva Bernetta Kohlhepp Teichert may be the most wi dely reproduced and least-known woman artist in the LDS Church. Her paintings have appeared more than fifty times in Church publications since the mid-1970s. Her […]
[…] direct progenitor was the first person to enter Great Salt Lake Valley, the first to plow near City Creek, the first to plant potatoes in Cache Valley, the first to mine coal in Coalville, […]
[…] an era awash in a sea of reboots and re-examinations, one may be forgiven for initially won dering why yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received […]
[…] the Big Wormy Apple.” “We are now.” I nod towards Rob. “He grew up in Salt Lake City.” “Another big Mormon town.” “Yeah.” “You big Mormons?” Rob’s leg jerks just a little. “Used to […]
[…] finally in 1961, staying in Utah for several weeks, staying at the Newhouse Hotel in Salt Lake City and travelling about with Mormon friends to many places; after which I went to Lugano, Switzerland, […]
[…] but it’s just as searching, not to mention well researched, smart, and humane. Patterson begins in Independence, Missouri, which Joseph Smith’s revelations identified as Zion, the New Jerusalem in which Church members should take […]
[…] 2014), 58–67. Joseph Smith—History 1:19. See B. H. Roberts, Outlines of Ecclesiastical History: A Textbook (Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., 1893), 181–83 (citing approvingly the Lutheran historian Johann Lorenz von […]