My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman
My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

Author: William G. Hartley

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1365739686

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""My Best for the Kingdom provides a valuable history of several little-known events in early Mormon history--the Church in Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1830s, the Danites in Missouri, Mormon resistance to Missouri persecutions, ... the James Emmett expedition, [and] pioneer Spanish Fork, Utah...John L. Butler's autobiography, given here in full, rivals and adds to the accounts of Hosea Stout and John D. Lee in telling the Mormon story of the 1830s, '40s, and '50s. Butler was a valiant militiaman, missionary, frontiersman, and bishop. A fast-moving, informative, well-researched and well-told account of Mormonism on the frontier...and pioneer Utah.""--Leonard J. Arrington quoted on the back outside jacket. This is the 3rd printing of My Best for the Kingdom (ISBN 978-1-365-73968-2) and is the same as the 2nd printing (ISBN 978-0-9843965-2-8) and 1st printing (ISBN 1-56236-212-7) versions except that the front & end papers (family chart and map) on the previous versions are now included as the final two pages.

Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, 1801-1861
Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, 1801-1861

Author: John Lowe Butler

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Collection includes three typewritten versions of the autobiography of John Lowe Butler. The autobiographies describe Butler's conversion to the Latter-day Saint Church, building Nauvoo, Illinois, officiating in the temple, experiences as Joseph Smith's bodyguard, the martyrdom of Smith, the expulsion from Nauvoo, the journey to Utah, the colonization of Spanish Fork, Utah, the Utah War and genealogical information of the Butler family, family wills and patriarchal blessings.

Imperial Zions
Imperial Zions

Author: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-10

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1496214609

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Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.

William B. Smith
William B. Smith

Author: Kyle R. Walker

Publisher: Greg Kofford Books

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13:

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2016 Best Biography Award, John Whitmer Historical Association Younger brother of Joseph Smith, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Church Patriarch for a time, William Smith had tumultuous yet devoted relationships with Joseph, his fellow members of the Twelve, and the LDS and RLDS (Community of Christ) churches. Walker's imposing biography examines not only William's complex life in detail, but also sheds additional light on the family dynamics of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, as well as the turbulent intersections between the LDS and RLDS churches. William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet is a vital contribution to Mormon history in both the LDS and RLDS traditions.

Wandering Souls
Wandering Souls

Author: S. Scott Rohrer

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 080783372X

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In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic types. The most common type involved migrations motivated by religion, economics, and family, in which Puritans, Methodists, Moravians, and others headed to the frontier as individuals in search of religious and social fulfillment. The other type involved groups wanting to escape persecution (such as the Mormons) or to establish communities where they could practice their faith in peace (such as the Inspirationists). --from publisher description.

Historical Dictionary of Mormonism
Historical Dictionary of Mormonism

Author: Davis Bitton

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0810862514

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Clearing up many of the misconceptions held about Mormonism and its members, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mormonism expands on the second edition and includes hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, churches, beliefs, and events.

Excavating Mormon Pasts
Excavating Mormon Pasts

Author: Newell C. Bringhurst

Publisher: Greg Kofford Books

Published: 2004-08-31

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13:

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Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century.