[…] Associates, 1031 South 150 West, Orem, Utah 84057. Wilcox, Pearl G. The Saints of the Reorganization in Missouri. Independence, Mo.: Independence Press, 1974. Wyatt, Clair L. Some That Trouble You: Sub-cultures in Mormonism. Salt […]
[…] thought too sour for life. At its center, geographically and in every other way, is Salt Lake City, a spanking clean metropolis of more than half a million. McCarry had special praise for Utah’s […]
[…] though he spent some years in Fillmore, he spent much of his time living in Salt Lake City and the Los Angeles area. The eldest daughter, Gussie, married a man named Frank Marshall, though […]
[…] turning point began in 1915–16. The Church (through presiding bishop Charles W. Nibley) petitioned the Salt Lake City Council to build a large cement Latin cross on the top of Ensign Peak. Its proponents, […]
[…] 1945 Fawn McKay Brodie, a niece of David O. McKay, a Mormon General Authority and later presi dent of the LDS Church, published a thoroughly researched, brilliantly written, and highly controversial biography of Joseph […]
[…] James Bergera reminds us that dedicated leaders could disagree on points of doctrine and that the capa city to submit to higher authority when larger interests of the Kingdom are involved is itself a […]
[…] anointings were regularly administered in the temples at Saint George and Logan, and later at Salt Lake City and Manti; the ordinance typically was performed by the temple president, who, with the exception of […]
Dialogue 18.4 (Winter 1984): 65–80
Shortly after the church was organized, one of Joseph Smith’s main priorities during his lifetime was preaching to the Native Americans, who he believed to be the descendants of the Lamanites.
[…] Before the Civil War, at least seven novels were published which included scenes depicting the Mormons in Missouri and Illinois. The first use of Mormon characters in a romance is found in Monsieur Violet: […]
[…] services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city‘s proposed Main Street. Daniel H. Wells and William Cutler had brought the sobering news into camp […]