My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365739686
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (657 download)

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Book Synopsis My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman by : William G. Hartley

Download or read book My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman written by William G. Hartley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""My Best for the Kingdom provides a valuable history of several little-known events in early Mormon history--the Church in Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1830s, the Danites in Missouri, Mormon resistance to Missouri persecutions, ... the James Emmett expedition, [and] pioneer Spanish Fork, Utah...John L. Butler's autobiography, given here in full, rivals and adds to the accounts of Hosea Stout and John D. Lee in telling the Mormon story of the 1830s, '40s, and '50s. Butler was a valiant militiaman, missionary, frontiersman, and bishop. A fast-moving, informative, well-researched and well-told account of Mormonism on the frontier...and pioneer Utah.""--Leonard J. Arrington quoted on the back outside jacket. This is the 3rd printing of My Best for the Kingdom (ISBN 978-1-365-73968-2) and is the same as the 2nd printing (ISBN 978-0-9843965-2-8) and 1st printing (ISBN 1-56236-212-7) versions except that the front & end papers (family chart and map) on the previous versions are now included as the final two pages.

Joseph Holbrook, Mormon Pioneer, a Journal

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 147714840X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph Holbrook, Mormon Pioneer, a Journal by : Doug Smith

Download or read book Joseph Holbrook, Mormon Pioneer, a Journal written by Doug Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Lewis, the youngest of seven children born to African American working class parents, and Hamilton Armstrong III, the only son of a wealthy white family and local leader of the Ku Klux Klan, grew up in the same small Virginia town, but lived worlds apart. They meet through mischief and despite the racial barriers of the pre-Civil Rights era, a life-long friendship is formed. Both driven by a passion for writing, they begin journalism careers at different New York newspapers, experience dangerous, as well as raunchy times in Vietnam and enter the sunset years of their careers at the same Atlanta newspaper where they are dueling political columnists: Sam pens the conservative viewpoint and Ham provides the liberal perspective. Unexpected excitement enters their lives as a bomb meant for Sam kills a colleague in the midst of their coverage of Barack Obamas rise to the presidency. Brothers under the same skin, Same Same sketches the lives of two talented journalists, one white, one black, in a novel that is part thriller and part morality tale. Doug Smith, a ground breaking reporter, undoubtedly lived the themes echoed in this book and he skillfully weaves a tale with a message that is both timely and timeless. -Eleanor Clift, Newsweek and Daily Beast contributor and panelist with The McLaughlin Group Doug Smith has written a fetching race-drama that flips the script on group assumption about life, love and politics. There is energy here, start to finish; and the tension puts the reader on his toes, then back on his heels. The author is quite savvy about the newspaper industry, mindful of its decline and guarded about newspapers way forward. But it is race politics in America, glancing off White House politics, where the novel takes on currency and makes itself a worthy book for our time. -Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author People say newspapers are dying. Well, Doug Smiths new rollercoaster novel certainly sends them out with a bang. Murder, sex, race, politics, scandal--all set in the newsroom. I love it! -Tony Kornheiser, co-anchor of ESPNs Pardon the Interruption

Remembering Joseph

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Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Remembering Joseph by : Joseph Smith

Download or read book Remembering Joseph written by Joseph Smith and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2003 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man Behind the Discourse

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Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Man Behind the Discourse by : Joann Follett Mortensen

Download or read book The Man Behind the Discourse written by Joann Follett Mortensen and published by Greg Kofford Books. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was King Follett? When he was fatally injured digging a well in Nauvoo in March 1844, why did Joseph Smith use his death to deliver the monumental doctrinal sermon now known as the King Follett Discourse? Much has been written about the sermon, but little about King. Although King left no personal writings, Joann Follett Mortensen, King’s third great-granddaughter, draws on more than thirty years of research in civic and Church records and in the journals and letters of King’s peers to piece together King’s story from his birth in New Hampshire and moves westward where, in Ohio, he and his wife, Louisa, made the life-shifting decision to accept the new Mormon religion. From that point, this humble, hospitable, and hardworking family followed the Church into Missouri where their devotion to Joseph Smith was refined and burnished. King was the last Mormon prisoner in Missouri to be released from jail. According to family lore, King was one of the Prophet’s bodyguards. He was also a Danite, a Mason, and an officer in the Nauvoo Legion. After his death, Louisa and their children settled in Iowa where some associated with the Cutlerities and the RLDS Church; others moved on to California. One son joined the Mormon Battalion and helped found Mormon communities in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. While King would have died virtually unknown had his name not been attached to the discourse, his life story reflects the reality of all those whose faith became the foundation for a new religion. His biography is more than one man’s life story. It is the history of the early Restoration itself.

Stand by My Servant Joseph

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Stand by My Servant Joseph by : William G. Hartley

Download or read book Stand by My Servant Joseph written by William G. Hartley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brother Joseph: Seer of a New Dispensation, Volume Two

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Publisher : Verity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0934364788
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Brother Joseph: Seer of a New Dispensation, Volume Two by : Richard N. Skousen

Download or read book Brother Joseph: Seer of a New Dispensation, Volume Two written by Richard N. Skousen and published by Verity Publishing. This book was released on with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of Brother Joseph: Seer of a New Dispensation continues the amazing saga of the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Drawn from hundreds of authoritative sources, it delivers a fascinating and sweeping view of the last half of Joseph’s eventful and inspiring life. Through the highs and the lows of his many experiences in Kirtland, Zion’s Camp, Far West, Liberty jail and Nauvoo, Joseph was forged into a humble servant of God who led the people by example and whom the Saints admired and deeply loved. The Saints knew that their cherished Brother Joseph was a man who was full of light, who imparted profound doctrines that enriched their lives—teachings that caused them to ponder in sincere reflection. They treasured the opportunity to associate with Joseph and to learn from him. Written in a very readable style by using Joseph’s own recorded history and the observations of those knew him, this volume offers a clear and vivid portrait of the Prophet Joseph Smith. It illustrates the breadth and depth of the dynamic life of this exceptional servant of God. In this book is an inspiring and impressive biography of a singular man and prophet of God.

Harold

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429969016
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Harold by : Hal Holbrook

Download or read book Harold written by Hal Holbrook and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain, the beloved stage, film, and television actor Hal Holbrook presents an affecting memoir about his struggle to discover his true self, even as he learned to transform himself onstage. Abandoned by his mother and father when he was two, Holbrook and his two sisters commenced separate journeys of survival. Raised by his powerful grandfather, who died when Holbrook was twelve, he spent his childhood at boarding schools, visiting his father in an insane asylum and hoping his mother would suddenly surface in Hollywood. As World War II engulfed Europe, Holbrook began acting almost by accident. Through war, marriage, and the work of honing his craft, his fear of insanity and his fearlessness in the face of risk were channeled into discovering that the riskiest path of all—success as an actor—would be his birthright. The climb up that forbidding mountain was a lonely one. And how he achieved it—the cost to his wife and children and to his own conscience—is the dark side of the fame he would eventually earn by portraying the man his career would forever be most closely associated with: Mark Twain. “If I were to conjure an image of an individual who best fits the phrase ‘a real American,’ it would be Hal Holbrook. This book shows him as a complete person. You will be compelled by the wit and wisdom of this beautifully composed story of self-determination and survival.”—Robert Redford

Joseph Holbrook, Mormon Pioneer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph Holbrook, Mormon Pioneer by : Pamela Call Johnson

Download or read book Joseph Holbrook, Mormon Pioneer written by Pamela Call Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commentary on the life of Joseph Holbrook based on his journal and other historical sources including insights on the establishment of the Mormon Church, the trek west under the leadership of Brigham Young, and the settlement of Utah.

Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days

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Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ISBN 13 : 1629737100
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him, accepting the invitation to become Saints through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But opposition and violence follow those who defy old traditions to embrace restored truths. The women and men who join the church must choose whether or not they will stay true to their covenants, establish Zion, and proclaim the gospel to a troubled world. The Standard of Truth is the first book in Saints, a new, four-volume narrative history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Fast-paced, meticulously researched, Saints recounts true stories of Latter-day Saints across the globe and answers the Lord’s call to write history “for the good of the church, and for the rising generations” (Doctrine and Covenants 69:8).

The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350745
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell by : Harold K. Bush

Download or read book The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell written by Harold K. Bush and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell—a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut—rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that as in most things about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment. From the moment of their first encounter in 1868, a rapport was established. When Twain went to dinner at the Twichell home, he wrote to his future wife that he had “got up to go at 9.30 PM, & never sat down again—but [Twichell] said he was bound to have his talk out—& I was willing—& so I only left at 11.” This conversation continued, in various forms, for forty-two years—in both men’s houses, on Hartford streets, on Bermuda roads, and on Alpine trails. The dialogue between these two men—one an inimitable American literary figure, the other a man of deep perception who himself possessed both narrative skill and wit—has been much discussed by Twain biographers. But it has never been presented in this way before: as a record of their surviving correspondence; of the various turns of their decades-long exchanges; of what Twichell described in his journals as the “long full feast of talk” with his friend, whom he would always call “Mark.”

Mormons at the Missouri

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806136158
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Mormons at the Missouri by : Richard Edmond Bennett

Download or read book Mormons at the Missouri written by Richard Edmond Bennett and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mormon trek westward from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley was an enduring accomplishment of American overland trail migration; however, their wintering at the Missouri River near present-day Omaha was a feat of faith and perseverance. Richard E. Bennett presents new facts and ideas that challenge old assumptions—particularly that life on the frontier encouraged American individualism. With an excellent command of primary sources, Bennett assesses the role of women in a pioneer society and the Mormon strategies for survival in a harsh environment as they planned their emigration, coped with internal dissension and Indian agents, and dealt with tribes of the region. This was, says Bennett, “Mormonism in the raw on the way to what it would be later.” Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the author, Mormons at the Missouri received the Francis M. and Emily Chipman Award from the Mormon History Association and was honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.

The Power of Godliness

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844450
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Power of Godliness by : Jonathan Stapley

Download or read book The Power of Godliness written by Jonathan Stapley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Godliness is a key work to understand Mormon conceptions of priesthood, authority, and gender. With in-depth research and never previously used documents, Jonathan A. Stapley explores the rituals of ordination, temple "sealings," baby blessings, healing, and cunning-folk traditions. In doing so, he demonstrates that Mormon liturgy includes a much larger and more complex set of ritualized acts of worship than the specific rites of initiation, instruction, and sealing that take place within the temple walls. By exploring Mormonism's liturgy more broadly, The Power of Godliness shows both the nuances of Mormon belief and practice, and how the Mormon ordering of heaven and earth is not a mere philosophical or theological exercise. Stapley examines Mormonism's liturgical history to reveal a complete religious world, incorporating women, men, and children all participating in the construction of the Mormon universe. This book opens new possibilities for understanding the lived experiences of women and men in the Mormon past and present, and investigates what work these rituals and ritualized acts actually performed in the communities that carried them out. By tracing the development of the rituals and the work they accomplish, The Power of Godliness sheds important new light on the Mormon universe, its complex priesthoods, authorities, and powers.

From the Outside Looking In

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190244666
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis From the Outside Looking In by : Reid L. Neilson

Download or read book From the Outside Looking In written by Reid L. Neilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association. Approaching Mormon history from a variety of angles, such as gender, identity creation, American imperialism, and globalization, these scholars, all experts in their fields but new to the study of Mormon history itself, ask intriguing questions about Mormonism's past and future and analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways.

Church History in the Fulness of Times

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Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ISBN 13 : 1465118284
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Church History in the Fulness of Times written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual covers the historical period of the Church from Joseph Smith to President Gordon B. Hinckley. For institute courses Religion 341, 342, and 343. Also useful for individual and family study.

Reconstruction and Mormon America

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806165863
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstruction and Mormon America by : Clyde A. Milner

Download or read book Reconstruction and Mormon America written by Clyde A. Milner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South has been the standard focus of Reconstruction, but reconstruction following the Civil War was not a distinctly Southern experience. In the post–Civil War West, American Indians also experienced reconstruction through removal to reservations and assimilation to Christianity, and Latter-day Saints—Mormons—saw government actions to force the end of polygamy under threat of disestablishing the church. These efforts to bring nonconformist Mormons into the American mainstream figure in the more familiar scheme of the federal government’s reconstruction—aimed at rebellious white Southerners and uncontrolled American Indians. In this volume, more than a dozen contributors look anew at the scope of the reconstruction narrative and offer a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints. Marshaled by editors Clyde A. Milner II and Brian Q. Cannon, these writers explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians. Other contributions examine the effect of the government’s policies on Mormon identity and sense of history. Why, for example, do Latter-day Saints not have a Lost Cause? Do they share a resentment with American Indians over the loss of sovereignty? And were nineteenth-century Mormons considered to be on the “wrong” side of a religious line, but not a “race line”? The authors consider these and other vital questions and topics here. Together, and in dialogue with one another, their work suggests a new way of understanding the regional, racial, and religious dynamics of reconstruction—and, within this framework, a new way of thinking about the creation of a Mormon historical identity.

A House for the Most High

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Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
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Total Pages : 479 pages
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Download or read book A House for the Most High written by Matthew McBride and published by Greg Kofford Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This awe-inspiring book is a tribute to the perseverance of the human spirit. A House for the Most High is a groundbreaking work from beginning to end with its faithful and comprehensive documentation of the Nauvoo Temple’s conception. The behind-the-scenes stories of those determined Saints involved in the great struggle to raise the sacred edifice bring a new appreciation to all readers. McBride’s painstaking research now gives us access to valuable first-hand accounts that are drawn straight from the newspaper articles, private diaries, journals, and letters of the steadfast participants. The opening of this volume gives the reader an extraordinary window into the early temple-building labors of the besieged Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the development of what would become temple-related doctrines in the decade prior to the Nauvoo era, and the 1839 advent of the Saints in Illinois. The main body of this fascinating history covers the significant years, starting from 1840, when this temple was first considered, to the temple’s early destruction by a devastating natural disaster. A well-thought-out conclusion completes the epic by telling of the repurchase of the temple lot by the Church in 1937, the lot’s excavation in 1962, and the grand announcement in 1999 that the temple would indeed be rebuilt. Also included are an astonishing appendix containing rare and fascinating eyewitness descriptions of the temple and a bibliography of all major source materials. Mormons and non-Mormons alike will discover, within the pages of this book, a true sense of wonder and gratitude for a determined people whose sole desire was to build a sacred and holy temple for the worship of their God.

The Heavens Resound

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Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Heavens Resound by : Milton V. Backman (Jr.)

Download or read book The Heavens Resound written by Milton V. Backman (Jr.) and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 1983 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: