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1) True sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kate, chafing under the old-fashioned restrictions of the Mormon Church, travels back in time and learns from her great-great-great-great-grandmother what it really means to be a Latter-Day Saint.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Utah's Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offers breathtaking natural resources, powerful historical drama and intriguing cultural traditions. This rich legacy is built on old-world values of cooperation, industry, ingenuity and true grit—as well as a miracle or two. From frontier justice and lost treasure to the lasting contributions of a Presbyterian minister and a Jewish settlement, talented regional historians, educators and storytellers...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. 1856. Three women-once strangers-come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2003], c1942
Edition
New Bison Books ed. /
Physical Desc
xviii, 362 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chronicles the establishment of the Mormon country in the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, discussing how the religion's followers formed their own tight knit community.
10) Utah's heritage
Author
Publisher
Peregrine Smith
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
510 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A textbook introduction to Utah's geography, history, people, and culture, including information on the Utah Indians and the contributions of non-Mormons.
Series
Kingdom in the West volume 16
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
559 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Examines the cooperation and conflict, violence and political maneuvering between the Mormons and Native Americans using the journals, letters, reports, and recollections of the people closest to the experience, and provide basic cultural, historical, and environmental perspectives to comprehend the Native world"--
18) Tales of triumph
Publisher
International Society, Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Pub. Date
2018-<2021>
Physical Desc
<4> volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Western frontiersmen volume 37
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Co
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Co./University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
392 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered an arm useless, General George R. Maxwell was sent to Utah Territory and charged - first as Register of Land, then as U.S. marshal - with bringing the Mormons into compliance with federal law. John Gary Maxwell's biography of General Maxwell (no relation) both celebrates an unsung war hero and presents the history of the longest episode of civil disobedience in U.S....
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