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The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks

Author : Craig S. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607816478
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks written by Craig S. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 220 letters selected for this book offer a fresh and intimate encounter with Juanita Brooks, one of the most influential historians of Utah and the Mormons. Born and raised in the small and remote agricultural village of Bunkerville, Nevada, Brooks lived most most of her life in St. George, Utah, and rose to prominence following the 1950 publication of her landmark book, The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Her unwavering commitment to honest scholarship continues to inspire younger generations laboring to produce excellent objective history. The letters in this volume, written from 1941 to 1978, trace Brooks's development from fledgling historian to recognized authority. Serving almost as an autobiography of her interactions with her contemporaries, this selection provides a new perspective on Brooks's personality and growth as a scholar. Richly detailed, chatty, and covering a wide array of subjects, the letters afford an important glimpse into Brooks's struggles, concerns, and interests.

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Author : Juanita Brooks
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185384
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain Meadows Massacre written by Juanita Brooks and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named. With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows. The result is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the participants as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of war hysteria, whipped up by recitals of past persecutions and the vision of an approaching "army" coming to drive the Mormons from their homes.

Mormonism and White Supremacy

Author : Joanna Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190081767
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Mormonism and White Supremacy written by Joanna Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the role of white American Christianity in fostering and sustaining white supremacy. It draws from theology, critical race theory, and American religious history to make the argument that predominantly white Christian denominations have served as a venue for establishing white privilege and have conveyed to white believers a sense of moral innocence without requiring moral reckoning with the costs of anti-Black racism. To demonstrate these arguments, Brooks draws from Mormon history from the 1830s to the present, from an archive that includes speeches, historical documents, theological treatises, Sunday School curricula, and other documents of religious life"--

Juanita Brooks

Author : Levi S. Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607811510
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Juanita Brooks written by Levi S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print and with a new preface, this telling biography documents the life of Juanita Brooks, a Mormon whose passion for knowledge and truth led her to become a historian and the author of The Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which she exposed the killing of California-bound emigrant traveling through Utah as an atrocity carried out by a Mormon militia with Indian allies, and not solely as an Indian massacre.

Quicksand and Cactus

Author : Juanita Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Quicksand and Cactus written by Juanita Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juanita Brooks became one of the best-known historians of Mormon and Utah history. Her autobiography is a valuable source of information on early southern Utah and Mormon history.

The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Counterpoint
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner written by Wallace Stegner and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stegner, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, was a great writer. As an author, historian, teacher, and environmentalist, he influenced countless prominent individuals during his long life. Showcasing some of those relationships, these letters (written between 1933 and 1993) cover a broad range of topics, including literature, history, conservation, and Stanford. Here are letters to colleagues, like Ansel Adams, friends and family, as well as many students who went on to become well–respected authors, among them Wendell Berry, John Daniel, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, and Robert Stone. In 1946 he founded the prestigious Stegner Fellowship Program. In 1961, his memos to then Secretary of the Interior Steward Udall set the tone and agenda for what would become the modern environmental movement. Here, in their entirety, are the letters that track it all. For a man who had no interest in writing an autobiography, they offer an inside look at his "unedited thoughts and opinions, and to a factual narrative untransformed by the literary imagination, to life lived before being lived," writes his son Page Stegner in his introduction. Here is history as told through correspondence with people who helped shape literature, politics, and environmentalism in the twentieth century.

Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Author : Ronald W. Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830975
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Massacre at Mountain Meadows written by Ronald W. Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event, including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois. It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama, their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal vendettas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon history. Neither a whitewash nor an exposé, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.

Writings of John D. Lee

Author : John Doyle Lee
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1587360829
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Writings of John D. Lee written by John Doyle Lee and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection from the writings of John Doyle Lee include his autobiography, his confession (regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre), letters, poems, last words for his families, as well as related historical documents regarding his arrest, trials and execution. The book includes 14 engravings from the 1891 edition, as well as a bibliography.

Journal of the Southern Indian Mission

Author : Thomas Dunlop Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Southern Indian Mission written by Thomas Dunlop Brown and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited copies of "Journal", notes, correspondence. Notes include other diary exerpts, copied items from the Journal History of the Church. These items were to have been published by Dale Morgan but were never completed.

No Man Knows My History

Author : Fawn M. Brodie
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0679730540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book No Man Knows My History written by Fawn M. Brodie and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? 24 pages of photos. Map.

Faithful Transgressions In The American West

Author : Laura Bush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Faithful Transgressions In The American West written by Laura Bush and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subjects of Laura Bush's book are six Mormon women writers and their published autobiographies. The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders.

Juanita Brooks

Author : Levi S. Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Juanita Brooks written by Levi S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood of the Prophets

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186844
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Blood of the Prophets written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.

Swell Suffering

Author : Veda Hale
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781589581241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Swell Suffering written by Veda Hale and published by Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whipple, author of what some critics consider Mormonism's greatest novel, "The Giant Joshua, " is an enigma. Her prize-winning novel has never been out of print, and its portrayal of the founding of St. George draws on her own family history to produce its unforgettable and candid portrait of plural marriage's challenges. Hale, a personal friend, chronicles Whipple's life, nailing each insight down with thorough research in her vast but underutilized collected papers. 482 pp.

A Mormon Chronicle

Author : John Doyle Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mormon Chronicle written by John Doyle Lee and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) was one of the most controversial figures of early Mormon history. A fervent convert, he was adopted by Brigham Young and rose to become a leading member of the church's hierarchy. Lee left behind a number of colorful diaries that reveal in fascinating clarity and detail the everyday life of Utah's pioneer settlers. In them, he describes his close relationship with Brigham Young, his experiences in converting Native Americans to Mormonism, his trials with farming and livestock, his encounters with his 19 wives, and his eventual exile to the barren wastelands of Lee's Ferry. In the 1950s, five of Lee's diaries in the Huntington collections were meticulously edited and annotated by historians Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks and published in two volumes by the Huntington Library in 1955 to great acclaim as A Mormon Chronicle, The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876. The University of Utah Press kept the book in print until the 1990s; it has now been reprinted as a Huntington Library Classic with a new foreword by Andrew Rolle, a Huntington research fellow and retired Cleland Professor of History from Occidental College. In his foreword, Rolle discusses the collaboration between Cleland, a leading historian of the Southwest, and Brooks, a notable scholar of Mormon history.

Salamander

Author : Linda Sillitoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560852001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Salamander written by Linda Sillitoe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from thousands of pages of police reports, court documents, interviews, letters, and diaries, Sillitoe's and Roberts's narrative cuts through the complexities of this famous crime investigation to deliver a gripping, Capote-esque tale. They embrace the details but lay them out systematically as seen through the eyes of the detectives, victims, and the perpetrator. The darkest secrets unravel gradually--allowing the reader fleeting glimpses of the infamous white salamander as it ducks in and out of its fabricator's head. What was the "salamander letter" and why were so many people determined to possess--and to conceal--it? Why was this one of the most unusual cases in American forensic history? A skilled con artist by anyone's assessment, Mark Hofmann eluded exposure by police and document authenticators--the FBI, Library of Congress, the LDS historical department, and polygraph experts--until George Throckmorton discovered the telltale microscopic alligatoring that was characteristic of the forgeries. What ensued was a suspense-ridden cat-and-mouse game between seasoned prosecutors and a clever, homicidal criminal. In the end, this story only verifies that some facts are indeed stranger than fiction.

The Giant Joshua

Author : Maurine Whipple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Giant Joshua written by Maurine Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the Dixie Religious Mission in the Utah desert, and of a high-spirited girl who becomes a Mormon's third wife.