[…] The book recounts the initial settlement efforts of Utah after unsuccessful Mormon efforts to settle in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. Wright notes the reverential attitude of the early pioneers toward their new territory: “Over […]
[…] “religion industry” in the same way that it has a food industry or a clothing industry. Each de nomination or church is a “firm” with a certain line of “products” competing with those of […]
[…] in part from my own personal experience. Since I was a minor when I first expressed a de sire for baptism, and my parents would not approve, I was required to wait three years. […]
[…] 1992), 1:255. See D&C 42:18-19,79; also L. Kay Gillespie, The Un forgiven: Utah’s Executed Men (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1991), 14-16; and Dallin H. Oaks, The Lord’s Way (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book […]
[…] the Salt Lake Tribune that Eadie’s LDS conversion “apparently took place after the author experienced what the book de scribes as her death.” In 1993 Eadie confirmed in an interview with the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner […]
[…] well, she wears fine linen and purple. 23 Notable is her husband in the community; within the city gates he takes his seat with the elders of the land. 24 Once created, her linen […]
[…] totaled more than $97 million. As with student enrollments, however, the trend during these years was toward de creasing allocations to BYU and increasing allocations to the rest of the church’s burgeoning school system. […]
[…] met Harry at the Parade, an open-air market every Wednes day and Saturday in front of the city hall, where people came to trade: chiffon, silk, polka-dotted polyester mixed with eighteenth-century da guerreotypes, red-tasseled […]
[…] that would have embarrassed most. He didn’t come close to making it in the door of the city’s large firms. He didn’t even get many second interviews, but he kept looking until a little […]
[…] his first term in office. If Smoot kept diaries after August 1932, they may have documented his de feat by Elbert D. Thomas in the 1932 election and his role as a member of […]