Author: Robert Kent FieldingPublisher: Paradigm Publications
ISBN: 9780912111384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Unsolicited Chronicler
Author: Robert Kent FieldingPublisher: Paradigm Publications
ISBN: 9780912111384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
Author: The Catholic Cabinet, and Chronicle of Religious Intelligence Containing Original and Selected Articles
Author: W. J. MullinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368727109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
American Massacre
Author: Sally DentonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307424723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally Denton makes a fiercely convincing argument that they were. The author–herself of Mormon descent–first traces the extraordinary emergence of the Mormons and the little-known nineteenth-century intrigues and tensions between their leaders and the U.S. government, fueled by the Mormons’ zealotry and exclusionary practices. We see how by 1857 they were unique as a religious group in ruling an entire American territory, Utah, and commanding their own exclusive government and army. Denton makes clear that in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, the church began placing the blame on a discredited Mormon, John D. Lee, and on various Native Americans. She cites contemporaneous records and newly discovered documents to support her argument that, in fact, the Mormon leader, Brigham Young, bore significant responsibility–that Young, impelled by the church’s financial crises, facing increasingly intense scrutiny and condemnation by the federal government, incited the crime by both word and deed. Finally, Denton explains how the rapidly expanding and enormously rich Mormon church of today still struggles to absolve itself of responsibility for what may well be an act of religious fanaticism unparalleled in the annals of American history. American Massacre is totally absorbing in its narrative as it brings to life a tragic moment in our history.
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
Author: Gardeners' Chronicle
Author: Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle
Author: Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
Author: Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle
Author: Missionary Magazine and Chronicle
Author: London Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description