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Book Synopsis Stories from the Life of Porter Rockwell by : John W. Rockwell
Download or read book Stories from the Life of Porter Rockwell written by John W. Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Orrin Porter Rockwell died of a heart attack in 1878, his name was as well known as Brigham Young's.Cowboys sang songs about him, and newspapers had frequently printed scandalous accounts about the malicious Mormon “destroying angel.” But to many, Rockwell was a guardian angel, and it could be easily said he saved far more lives than he took. It seems history tells two contrasting narratives about one of the West's most controversial men. Yes, at times Porter Rockwell could act violently, yet he was overly generous to those in need. At least two dozen people died at his hand, yet in every instance, he was exonerated. As the ninth person baptized into the restored Church, Porter was central to the early growth of the Church, even though he was never called to positions of leadership.He was called a saint and a sinner, a lawman and a criminal, a hero and a villain. Indians feared him, saying he was impossible to kill, but some people traveled hundreds of miles to try. Although his death by natural causes likely disappointed the many outlaws seeking his life, it also fulfilled a prophecy given by Joseph Smith that no bullet or blade would ever harm Porter Rockwell.A friend of Joseph Smith's since childhood and later his bodyguard, Porter saved the life of the Prophet more than once. Porter also served as a bodyguard to Brigham Young and helped guide the first pioneers across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. He became a legend as a frontiersman, a marksman, and a man of iron nerve.And though many outsiders characterized Porter Rockwell as a notorious, vengeful murderer, those who knew him saw him as a protector, a miraculous healer, and a loyal friend.
Book Synopsis Orrin Porter Rockwell by : Harold Schindler
Download or read book Orrin Porter Rockwell written by Harold Schindler and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devil's Gate written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the tragedy-marked 1856 journey of three thousand Mormons from Iowa to Utah, explaining how leader Brigham Young disregarded warnings and then convinced his followers that hardships and deaths were part of a higher plan.
Download or read book Powderkeg written by Leo V. Gordon and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powderkeg is a tale of high adventure, romance, and political intrigue that takes us from the frozen windswept reaches of the Utah Territory in winter to the halls of Congress and the office of President James Buchanan, a man haunted by the hobgoblins of secession and determined to leave office with the Union intact, no matter the cost. Others in Washington are equally determined that this should not be: men who dream of a separate nation, one that will stretch from the Carolinas to California - the Confederate States of America. Foremost among them are three Southern members of Buchanan's own cabinet, including Jefferson Davis, the secretary of war and senior senator from Mississippi. The instrument they choose to bring their dream a giant step closer to fruition is Brevet Brig. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, widely acclaimed as the army's finest field commander. On a sunny morning in the fall of 1857, Johnston leads an army of three thousand men out of Fort Leavenworth on an epic forced march that will take them twelve hundred miles to the Utah Territory and Salt Lake City - a punitive expedition against the "rebellious" Mormon settlers led by territorial governor Brigham Young. It is a powderkeg that could blow the Union apart!
Author :The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publisher :The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ISBN 13 :1629737100 Total Pages :676 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (297 download)
Book Synopsis Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days by : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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).
Book Synopsis No Man Knows My History by : Fawn M. Brodie
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.
Book Synopsis Under the Banner of Heaven by : Jon Krakauer
Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Download or read book The Rock Child written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unlikely trio comprised of an Indian, a Tibetan monk, and Sir Richard Burton--the famous soldier and explorer--search for refuge in the Utah Territory in 1862, in this new novel by the Spur Award-winning author of "Stone Song".
Book Synopsis The Assassination of Governor Boggs by : Rod Miller
Download or read book The Assassination of Governor Boggs written by Rod Miller and published by Bonneville. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized reinvestigation of the murder of Governor Lillburn Boggs in 1860.
Book Synopsis Let Sleeping Gods Lie by : David J West
Download or read book Let Sleeping Gods Lie written by David J West and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis L'Amour Meets Lovecraft Porter Rockwell, wanted for a murder he did not commit, is hiding out in Old California selling whiskey to thirsty forty-niners. When his friends dig up some monstrous bones and a peculiar book and offer to sell it for a helluva price, Porter can't resist the mystery. But when both his night bartender and the sellers are murdered at his saloon Porter has to find out what the mysterious artifacts are all about. With some Native American legends, Sasquatch, Lovecraftian horror, and murderous bandits thrown in, not even bullets and blades can stop Rockwell from leaving a swath of righteous carnage in his wake. Let Sleeping Gods Lieis a weird western fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fiction and Louis L'Amour books. If you like frontier justice, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you will LOVE the first installment of the Cowboys and Cthulhu series. Buy Let Sleeping Gods Lie to get lost in a horrific weird western adventure today!
Download or read book Brigham Young written by John G. Turner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.
Download or read book Ephraim Hanks written by Ivan J. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized life story of the Mormon scout, hunter, and daring explorer whose devotion to the leaders of the LDS Church, particularly Brigham Young, made him a frontier legend.
Book Synopsis Brigham's Destroying Angel by : William Adams Hickman
Download or read book Brigham's Destroying Angel written by William Adams Hickman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Spy Called James by : Anne Rockwell
Download or read book A Spy Called James written by Anne Rockwell and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette—an enslaved person who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution. After his resounding defeat at the battle of Yorktown, British general Charles Cornwallis made a point of touring the American camp, looking for the reason behind his loss. What he didn’t expect to see was James, an escaped enslaved person who had served as a guide to the British army. Or at least that’s what Cornwallis was led to believe. In fact, James wasn’t actually a runaway—he was a spy for the American army. But while America celebrated its newfound freedom, James returned to slavery in Virginia. His service as a spy hadn't qualified him for the release he'd been hoping for. For James the fight wasn't over; his next adversary was the Virginia General Assembly. He'd already helped his country gain its freedom, now it was time to win his own.
Book Synopsis Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier by : Benjamin E. Park
Download or read book Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier written by Benjamin E. Park and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.
Book Synopsis Monsters & Mormons by : Wm Henry Morris
Download or read book Monsters & Mormons written by Wm Henry Morris and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural/occult pulp fiction, turning the 19th-century tradition of using Mormons as stock villains on its head by making the Mormons the monster slayers.
Book Synopsis Joseph Smith Revealed: a Faithful Telling by : Whitney Horning
Download or read book Joseph Smith Revealed: a Faithful Telling written by Whitney Horning and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Smith was a great Christian thinker, a religious revolutionary, and a controversial figure. Of all the things attributed to him, polygamy is one of the most controversial. It is one of the most discussed issues in Mormon history and continues to be the center of on-going controversy and debate. The LDS Church claims that their past practice of plural marriage originated with Joseph. Other branches of early Mormonism, most notably the RLDS, claim that Joseph never taught or practiced anything that even closely resembled polygamy. Evidence suggests that Joseph was doing something. Yet, he consistently denied that he practiced plural marriage and spoke out against it, both publicly and privately. As you explore this alternate polygamy narrative, you may be surprised by what you find. You may even discover truth.
