[…] founded during the nineteenth century. These towns ranged from Kirtland, Ohio, to San Bernardino, California, and from Canada to Mexico. Some of their distinguishing features were: 1. Provision for farmers and ranchers to live […]
The career of Bernard DeVoto, the foremost writer and one of the greatest intellectual forces whom Utah has produced in this country, was conspicuously marked by achievements and honors. He wrote five novels, three […]
[…] likewise found the causes and cures of smallpox, bubonic plague, and yellow fever. Courageous societies and g overnments have made the use of vaccines and serums compulsory. The causes and cures of these physical […]
[…] gaps and corners in the picture I already had of the Utah “Dixie” settlement and its spill- over into Nevada. The book concentrates on the later extension of the settlement into Arizona. A gratuitous […]
[…] (1845-1921) AND AMANDA (1851-1932). Papers, 1856-1944. 2.5 in. Additions to the papers of the founder of Raymond, Canada, and President of Knight Investment Co. industries, and his wife. Includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, certificates, biographies, […]
Just over ten years ago I was approached by four young Mormons who were affiliated with Stanford University in one capacity or another. They wanted to know if there was a library market for […]
[…] first the city editor gave me only meager assignments, but I was later pro moted to c over the Hotel Utah which involved tracking down and interviewing distinguished people who visited the city. Thus […]
Dialogue 12 .2 (Summer 1979): 37–50
In recent years many RLDS Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since early in its history. Sometimes […]
[…] cholera broke out in the delta area of the Ganges River in India and began to spread over the country. Within two years Asiatic Cholera ascended the river with its boatmen and passed over […]
[…] Mormon pamphleteer was Orson Pratt. From his conversion in 1830 to his death in 1881, he authored over thirty works on both religious and scientific topics. Influential during his own lifetime, he wielded even […]