Our Pioneer Heritage

Our Pioneer Heritage

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Published: 1964

Total Pages: 646

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This 20-volume series tells the story of Utah pioneers and their accomplishments through biographies, diaries, special stories about pioneer life, and other documents.


Mormon Thunder

Mormon Thunder

Author: Gene A. Sessions

Publisher: Greg Kofford Books

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 496

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Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this “pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice.” It was “an eschatological, pre-millennial world in which every individual teetered between salvation and damnation and in which unsanitary privies and appropriating a stray cow held the same potential for eternal doom as blasphemy and adultery.” Updated and newly illustrated with more photographs, this second edition of the award-winning documentary history (first published in 1982) chronicles Grant’s ubiquitous role in the Mormon history of the 1840s and ’50s. In addition to serving as counselor to Brigham Young during two tumultuous and influential years at the end of his life, he also portentously befriended Thomas L. Kane, worked to temper his unruly brother-in-law William Smith, captained a company of emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and journeyed to the East on several missions to bolster the position of the Mormons during the crises surrounding the runaway judges affair and the public revelation of polygamy. Jedediah Morgan Grant’s voice rises powerfully in these pages, startling in its urgency in summoning his people to sacrifice and moving in its tenderness as he communicated to his family. From hastily scribbled letters to extemporaneous sermons exhorting obedience, and the notations of still stunned listeners, the sound of “Mormon Thunder” rolls again in “a boisterous amplification of what Mormonism really was, and would never be again.”


Nothing to Do But Stay

Nothing to Do But Stay

Author: Carrie Young

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0877453292

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This daughter's loving tribute to her pioneer mother tells of a real heroine who traveled by herself to North Dakota in 1904, to stake a lonely claim and start a farm on 160 empty acres before she married and began her family. Photos.


Pioneer Mother Monuments

Pioneer Mother Monuments

Author: Cynthia Culver Prescott

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0806163887

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For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.


Pioneers to the West

Pioneers to the West

Author: John Bliss

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1410940764

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Offers insight into the pioneer children's daily life and provides profiles of real migrant children and their later successes.


The Martin Harris Story

The Martin Harris Story

Author: Madge Harris Tuckett

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Published: 1983

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9781566845977

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Family history and biographies of Martin Harris, Sr. (1783-1875); his older brother, Emer Harris (1781-1869); and Emer's son, Dennison Lott Harris (1825-1885). Martin Harris, Sr. had significant influence on the early development of the LDS or Mormon Church, and earlier had served in the U.S. army during the War of 1812. All are descendants of Thomas Harris, who married Elizabeth Leatherland and immigrated in 1630 from England to Massachusetts, later moving to Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewhere. Mormon descendants moved to Utah and elsewhere.


Hole-in-the-Rock

Hole-in-the-Rock

Author: David E. Miller

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1787204103

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First published in 1962, David E. Miller’s award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and hagiography when Miller first became attracted to its study in the 1950s, and few reliable sources were at that time available. Not content with exhausting archival material, Miller contacted all locatable descendants of the members of the original party, and thereby brought to light a great number of previously unexploited sources. The Hole-in-the-Rock study achieved additional depth from his intimate knowledge of the actual trail acquired on repeated traverses by Jeep and on foot. A member of the LDS Church, Miller wrote of the Mormons with sympathy and understanding, but with a commitment as well to the critical standards of the historical profession. A must-read for anyone interested in American History.


Ancestry magazine

Ancestry magazine

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Published: 2005-01

Total Pages: 64

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Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.