Showing posts with label LDS history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LDS history. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Mormon folklore as diverse, tragic and humorous as other religions

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  A friend loaned me a book published in 1956,  "Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore Among the Mormons,"  by Austin and Alta Fife,...
Monday, May 15, 2023

John Corrill was an older Christian convert to the early Mormon church

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 --- The early years of the Mormon Church are distinct for its young converts, with 20-something apostles embracing the progressive, radical...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Review: Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian

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Originally published at StandardBlogs/Currents In his book, “ Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian ,” Levi S. Peterson describes a woman w...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Review: Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel

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  Is there even a statue of Frank Jenne Cannon in Ogden, Utah? Maybe a photo somewhere in a city or Weber County building, or perhaps Union...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Hamblin biography captures the many talents of the 'apostle to the Indians'

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Review by Doug Gibson Add early Mormon explorer/colonizer/missionary Jacob Hamblin to the list of excellent biographies of early Mor...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Joseph Smith biography does not shy away from historical scrutiny

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This review was originally published in 2005 at StandardNET . Today is the bicentennial of Joseph Smith’s birth. Two hundred years lat...
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Saturday, January 25, 2020

The Lost 116 Pages book explores Mormonism's great mystery

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Review by Doug Gibson Mormonism is a young religious movement. Perhaps our most prominent mystery is what's in the missing 116 page...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Polygamy was no Mormon harem, but it tore at marriages and hearts

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(Originally published at StandardNET in 2011) I spent some time re-reading the late Richard S. Van Wagoner’s excellent book, “ Mormon ...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Review: Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley ...

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Historian Melvin C. Johnson's new book , Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West," Greg Koff...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Polygamy opponents were swept aside in Nauvoo turmoil after Joseph Smith’s death

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The months in Nauvoo following the murder of the LDS Church founder Joseph Smith were not surprisingly, filled with turmoil and politic...
Friday, July 6, 2018

On the deadly LDS handcart treks

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As an active Mormon, I am accustomed to the romantic tales I hear in church of the wonderful “faith-inspiring” teams of pioneers who tr...