On The Mormon Frontier, 2 vols.; Diary of Hosea Stout. Vol. 1: 1844-1848, Vol.2: 1848-1861
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover/dust jacket. 769pp.
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Life Writings of Frontier Women. 5 volumes to date
Salt Lake City: Kofford Publishing. First printing. Leather. 5 volumes to date. Set #35 of 50. Rubbing and minor scuffing on covers of several volumes. V. 1: Winter Quarters. The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskins Parker Richards. Edited by Maurine Carr Ward. V. 2: Mormon Midwife. The 1846-1888 Diaries.....
A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 624 pp. Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton examines and disentangles many.....
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. First printing. Cloth/dj. 194pp. How did the Latter-day Saints of the nineteenth century defend their unpopular plural marriage system? What kind of poetry was written on the Mormon frontier, and what social function did it perform? In a collection intended to convey the excitement.....
The Last Called Mormon Colonization: Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin
University of Utah Press, 2022. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 251pp. More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization—often outside of Utah—continued under the next three LDS Church presidents, fueled by Utah’s overpopulation relative to its arable, productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell.....
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1997. First trade edition. Cloth/dj. 393 pp. Signed by author. Later printed as Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier, Vol. 1. The official journal of the Brigham Young pioneer company is made available for the first time in this book.....
A Cultural History of the Book of Mormon, Volume One; setting a foundation, of stones to stumble over
2013. Paperback. This first volume of a cultural history of the Book of Mormon focuses on the earliest years of the text. In a new reading of Mormon history informed by the author’s expertise in anthropology and text analysis, the role of Restorationists in locating the Book of Mormon inside.....
The Essential Joseph Smith
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995. First printing. Cloth/dj. 242pp. Classics in Mormon Thought Series, No. 4. Foreword by Marvin S. Hill. As illuminating as commentaries are, nothing conveys Joseph Smith's character like his own unadulterated words. In his distinctive language a mix of biblical and frontier idioms and in.....
The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, vol. 13: August-December 1843
Church Historian's Press, 2022. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 625pp. The thirteenth volume in the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers features ninety-eight Joseph Smith documents produced from August through December 1843 and includes letters, discourses, financial records, city ordinances, military orders, and a memorial to Congress. These documents provide insight into.....
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
University of North Carolina Press, 2023. First printing. Paperback. 234pp. On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Meadows, Utah. News of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it became known, sent.....
Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
University of North Carolina Press, 2019. First printing. Paperback. 343pp. Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town.....
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