[…] 1837 must be explained on other grounds. Alexander Doniphan’s bill to organize a Mormon county passed the Missouri legislature in 1836 but did not, as McKiernan affirms (p. 81), encompass Ray and Daviess counties. […]
[…] leaves and autumn fields as I passed through Sandy and Draper on my way from Salt Lake City to the prison at the point of the mountain. The muffler on my Volkswagon had rusted […]
[…] now. The quiet fields are broken into building lots and the farmers build jet engines in the city and garden with a roto-tiller after work. The old canal is lined with concrete and in […]
[…] life of Joseph Smith—intensive study of the sources, especially those in the historian’s archives in Salt Lake City. Let me emphasize before doing this that I wish to consider Brodie’s interpretation of Joseph Smith […]
[…] throughout history from the aboriginal disobedient pair. In modern history all Christian churches have made efforts to de-escalate the medieval anti-sexual crusade and restore an awareness of the sanctity of sexuality. The sin-sex syndrome […]
[…] once been the bishop but whom I remember as a bearded old man carrying on endless theological de bates with Heber Brockbank, his neighbor across the street (every village used to have its scriptorians […]
[…] As late as 1854, when the Saints had been in Utah seven years, had built Salt Lake City in the desert and were actively colonizing the Intermountain area, there were at this time exactly […]
[…] which were both unanticipated and objectionable to some Mormon converts. This new politico-religious mix was evident in Missouri almost from the beginning of settlement in 1831, in Ohio at least from the mid 1830’s, […]
[…] during this period, while Ellen Spencer Clawson belonged to a rapidly expanding family kingdom in Salt Lake City. It was a critical period in Mormon history, the time of the “Mormon Reformation,” and shortly […]
[…] pp. 379-380. Utah, Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Salt Lake City on the Fourth Day of March, i8g^, to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah […]