Kofford Classics imprint: 33 books

Written by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, this book contains his first-hand account of not only his own personal trials during the period in which the Latter-Day Saints were settled in Missouri, but many of the persecutions that the Mormon people underwent as a whole.

This personal record of Heber C Kimball, originally published as part of the Faith-Promoting Series, covers his first mission to England, his experiences during the persecution of the Mormons in Missouri, as well as parts of his second mission to England in the early 1840s.

This book, written by Lycurgus A. Wilson, discusses the life of Mormon apostle David W. Patten. It covers what was known of Patten's early life, his conversion to Mormonism, his missions in that church, his call and work as an Apostle, and finally his martyrdom at the Battle of Crooked River during the The Mormon War in Missouri in 1838.

This book on the persecutions endured by members of the Mormon Church in Missouri from 1833 to 1838 was written by Mormon leader B. H. Roberts at the beginning of the 20th century.  According to the author, it was written so that the youth of the Latter-Day Saints would have a 'full statement...

From his baptism into the Mormon Church in 1833 and until his death in 1898, Wilford Woodruff kept an almost daily record in his journal of the events that transpired in his life as well as many of the happenings of the Mormon church. He was referred to as 'perhaps, the best chronicler of events in...

This book is the record of John Whitmer, who served as Mormon Church Historian from 1831 until his excommunication in 1838. It covers many of the early dealings of the Mormon Church, including its missionary efforts, time in Kirtland, and persecutions in Missouri.

In this pamphlet, published by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, he undertakes to rebutt the claims made against the beliefs and practices of Mormonism made by Mr. Le Roy Sutherland, the editor of a publication known as Zion's Watchman.

Originally written as a part of the Faith-Promoting Series, this book contains one small biography and two small autobiographies of converts to the Mormon Church in its early days, namely John Tanner, Daniel Tyler, and Newel Knight.

This book, by Mormon apostle and later Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, was written in response to a number of attacks on the teachings of the Utah-based Mormon Church by ministers of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, now known as the Community of Christ. Within this book,...

This book by Mormon apostle James E. Talmage is revised and reconstructed version of numerous lectures that he delivered at several different universities. Within them, he addressed the story and major historical events of Mormonism as they'd largely occurred to that point.

Originally a series of radio broadcasts by Mormon leader B. H. Roberts, these sixteen discourses are on what Mormons refer to as the 'Great Apostasy' or the falling away from the original teachings of the Church that Jesus Christ established during the period of the New Testament.

Through this doctrinal treatise written in 1893, Mormon leader B. H. Roberts set out to teach the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He did so by examining four main events: the mortal ministry of Jesus Christ and His Apostles, the Great Apostasy that followed their deaths, The Reformation, and what Mormons refer to as the Restoration of the Gospel through Joseph Smith.

This small pamphlet was published shortly after the Carthage murder of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother - and Mormon Patriarch - Hyrum Smith. It describes the events leading up to the assassination by several eyewitnesses of those times.

Originally published as part of the Faith-Promoting Series, this collection of biographies and articles in regards to the trials and successes of early Mormon missionary labors was designed to inspire the youth of the Mormon Church and to "have the effect to instil a proper amount of righteous...