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1) True sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In order to encourage Mormon converts to emigrate to the promised land (Salt Lake City), a plan was implemented by Brigham Young himself: emigrants were outfitted with two-wheeled handcarts. The settlers were then expected to walk, pushing the handcarts, for the 1,300 mile journey from Iowa City. Several 'companies,' as they were called, completed this perilous trek and successfully reached Salt Lake City. But for the Martin Company, one of the very...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xxiv, 493 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the murder of over 120 men, women, and children by Mormon militia and Southern Paiute warriors at Mountain Meadows, Utah, on September 11, 1857, and chronicles the prolonged effort to uncover the truth about the massacre, prosecute the killers, and commemorate the dead.
Author
Publisher
Leonaur
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
468 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a remarkable and controversial book by any standards. The verdict is still out on whether its author Ann Eliza Young (formerly Webb) presented her case with complete impartiality, but certainly its contents are sufficiently detailed to reveal shocking and extraordinary details of her experiences during her time as a pluralist wife of Brigham Young of the Latter-Day Saints. A child of Mormon parents, Ann entered into her marriage with Young...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This manuscript reconstructs and interprets the life of "Sally," an Indian woman who was captured and enslaved in Utah in 1847. Her captors sold her to a settler who had just arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and she ended up in his father-in-law's house. Sally served as the longtime servant and cook in Brigham Young's household, living and working in the Lion House and Beehive House for over twenty years. Kerns has drawn on a broad range of ethnographic,...
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