The Pioneer Camp of the Saints
Title | The Pioneer Camp of the Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Bullock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail |
ISBN |
The Camp of the Saints - 2017
Title | The Camp of the Saints - 2017 PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Raspail |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2017-05-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781547020393 |
The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a setting wherein Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. A new (2017) introduction by Leonard Payne provides a cultural analysis.
Saints Find the Place
Title | Saints Find the Place PDF eBook |
Author | David Romney Crockett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Blood of the Prophets
Title | Blood of the Prophets PDF eBook |
Author | Will Bagley |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0806186844 |
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.
Brigham Young
Title | Brigham Young PDF eBook |
Author | John G. Turner |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0674067312 |
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.
One Side By Himself
Title | One Side By Himself PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Barney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
"What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney's tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney's life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his family. Ron Barney's detailed biography of Lewis Barney provides a participant's view of Mormonism's first six decades of controversy, hardship, and triumph, viewed from the bottom of the social heap. Despite his wide-ranging experience and endless sacrifices, Lewis Barney was a worker in the Mormon vineyard, not one of the princes of the Kingdom of God whose lives have been so exhaustively celebrated. Barney's lack of status in this complex hierarchy adds tremendously to the value of this study, since so much nineteenth-century LDS biography has ignored the lives of ordinary people to celebrate a surprisingly small elite whose experiences were far different from those of the general Mormon population." —Will Bagley, editor of the series Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier and editor of The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Title | Under the Banner of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Krakauer |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2004-06-08 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1400078997 |
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.