Overview

A fascinating eyewitness history of the Mormon movement - from its beginnings as a curious, controversial sect to its present-day prosperity. Told through contemporary accounts, letters, newspaper columns, documents, and memoirs by the Saints themselves and by the travelers, journalists, soldiers, officials (and their wives), humorists, and sensation-seekers who followed and observed the Mormons in their great trek westward and in the later struggles and adventures in Zion.

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Author:   William Mulder ,  A. Russell Mortensen
Publisher:   Western Epics
Imprint:   Western Epics
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780914740360

ISBN 10:   0914740369
Pages:   497
Publication Date:   30 August 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Map: Movements and Settlements of the Mormons Prologue: ""The Mormons,"" Robert P. Tristram Coffin I. GENESIS. The Times of Joseph Smith An American Prophet's Own Story, Joseph Smith A Yankee Household, Lucy Mack Smith, O. Turner Dreams and Visions, Signs and Wonders, Solomon Mack Grace Abounding and Religious Revival, Asael Smith, William Smith ""Something Is a Going to Take Place"", Lucius Fenn A Farmer's Excitement, Martin Harris Village Seer, W.D. Purple ""We Hear You Have a Gold Bible"", Lucy Mack Smith Governor Harding's Recollections, Parley P. Pratt Pedlar's Progress, Lucy Mack Smith Parley Parker Pratt Seeks Salvation, Parley P. Pratt Away to the Ohio, Nancy Towle ""I Certainly Should Have Gone Into the Water"", Frederic G. Mather Tar and Feathers, Joseph Smith Land and Promise, Joseph Smith, Contemporary Newspapers New Jerusalem: Letter from Independence, B. Pixley Trouble in Jackson County, Missouri Intelligencer ""Excitement, Anxiety and Alarm"", B. Pixley Zion's Camp, Contemporary Newspapers ""By No Means Men of Weak Minds"", James H. Eells Pride and Apostasy in Ohio, John Corrill Far West, Missouri, Brigham H. Roberts Sidney Rigdon's Ultimatum, Sidney Ridgon ""A True Narrative of Causes"", Missouri Argus Civil War in Missouri, W. F. Dunnica, Austin A. King ""Exterminate or Expel Them"", Governor L. W. Boggs Massacre at Haun's Mill, Joseph Young The Mormons Surrender, John Corrill Flight from Missouri, Daily Missouri Republican, Cleveland Herald Beginnings in Illinois, Alexandria Gazette Charlotte Haven Writes Home from Nauvoo, Charlotte Haven ""Great Events Have Transpired"": Politics and Polygamy, Charlotte Haven ""If We Are Not Molested"", Martha Haven, Sarah Scott Two Boston Brahmins Call on the Prophet, Josiah Quincy ""A Portentous Aspect"": The Nauvoo Expositor is Destroyed, Sarah and Isaac Scott Martyrdom at Carthage, Dr. Thomas L. Barnes Aftermath: ""The Church Is Now Divided"", Sarah and Isaac Scott Whittier Attends a Mormon Conventicle, John Greenleaf Whittier II. EXODUS. The Flight into the Wilderness ""As Soon As Grass Grows and Water Runs"", Daily Missouri Republican ""So On Our Way to California"", Missouri Whig A City for Sale, Daily Missouri Republican ""We Have Sold Our Place for a Trifle"", Martha S. Haven The Camp of Israel, Hancock Eagle The Mormon Battalion, Thomas L. Kane The Voyage of the Brooklyn, Edward C. Kemble Communique on Displaced Persons, Burlington Hawkeye Epitaph for Nauvoo, Thomas L. Kane The Mormon Encampments, Thomas L. Kane Winter Quarters Among the Indians, Thomas L. Kane ""These Western Moves Are Hard on Cattle"", Martha S. Haven III. CHRONICLES AND JUDGES. The Times of Brigham Young The Spanish Padre and the Valley of Paradise, Father Escalante On the Eve of Settlement, Heinrich Lienhard The Promised Land, William Clayton ""The Garden of Joseph"", Second General Epistle Forty-niners, John B. Hazlip, A. P. Josselyn ""The Mormonee"", William L. Manly An Oregon Emigrant, Solomon Zumwalt A Soldier and Surveyor, Capt. Howard Stansbury The Runaway Judges, Perry E. Brocchus Jedediah Grant Strikes Back, Jedediah Morgan Grant Critic in Crinoline, Mrs. B. G. Ferris Fremont's Artist Observer, Solomon Nunes Carvalho The Gallant Lieutenant, Lt. Sylvester Mowry A French Botanist Attends a Mormon Conference, Jules Remy Handcarts to Zion, John Chislett, Mary Ann Hafen Carpetbag Crisis: Drummond and His Trollop, W. W. Drummond The Coming of Johnston's Army, Brigham Young A Deserted City, Capt. Albert Tracy Letters from the Governor's Lady, Elizabeth Cumming Massacre at Mountain Meadows, Juanita Brooks Horace Greeley Interviews Brigham Young, Horace Greeley A British Adventurer in the City of the Saints, Sir Richard Burton Charles Dickens Describes a Mormon Emigrant Ship, Charles Dickens Mark Twain Makes Some Wisecracks, Mark Twain Glimpses of Mormon Society, Fitz Hugh Ludlow IV. LAMENTATIONS. Conflict and Accommodations in Zion The Irrepressible Conflict, Samuel Bowles A Humanitarian Looks at the ""Mormon Question"", William Hepworth Dixon Denominational Inroads, Daniel Sylvester Tuttle The Lord's Co-op, Edward W. Tullidge The Mormons and the Mines, Charles Marshall ""An After-Clap of Puritanism"", Ralph Waldo Emerson A Visit with Amelia Folson Young, A. M. Retrenchment: Brigham Young's Doctrine on Dress, Brigham Young Through Utah with Captain Codman, John Codman The Orderville Brethren, Phil Robinson Mormon Households, Sarah Wood Kane Crusade and Countercrusade, John M. Coyner Senator Brown of Georgia Defends the Mormons, Joseph E. Brown The Cohabs Go Underground, Grace Atkin Woodbury Capitulation: Wilford Woodruff Issues a Manifesto, Wilford Woodruff Utah Joins the Union, Charles S. Varian V. PSALMS. An Era of Good Feeling Elegy: A Summer in a Mormon Village, Florence A. Merriam The Plural Widows of St. George, Sarah Comstock Reed Smoot, Apostle in Politics, Nels Anderson Vachel Lindsay Encounters the Mormons in Canada, Stephen Graham Sin Comes to Ogden, Bernard De Voto Depression: ""Perhaps the Mormons are Pointing the Way"", Richard L Neuberger Tourist Holiday, Samuel W. Taylor The Contemporary Scene, Dale L. Morgan Hometown Revisited, Wallace Stegner Index"

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William Mulder is author of Homeward to Zion, a story of the Mormon migration from Scandinavia. A. Russell Mortensen was director of the Utah State Historical Society from 1950-1961.

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