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Fifteen years ago, in announcing what was then a list of prospective books, the writer declared his intention to publish a "Scrap Book," promising that it should be a choice selection of his miscellaneous writings, and mentioned as among the probable articles, Corianton, a Book of Mormon story; Mariam,...

In summing up his own life a few years before his death, Wilford Woodruff said:   “From the beginning of my ministry in 1834 until the close of 1895 I have traveled in all 172,369 miles; held 7,655 meetings; preached 3,526 discourses; organized 51 branches of the Church and...

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.

The Nauvoo era was a time of beauty, industry, spirituality, courage, and tragedy. Beginning with the bright hope of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and ending with the martyrdom of the Church's first prophet, Joseph Smith, early Nauvoo represents the dedication today’s Church members aspire to and the religious intolerance they seek to overcome.

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 volume is a treasury of anecdotal history and personal experiences of the early Saints. While compiling the early history of the Church, Brother Little determined to obtain as much first-hand information as possible and, during the latter lifetimes of the first members of the Church, interviewed...

This is the autobiographical account of Bill Hickman, Chief of the Destroying Angels, Head Danite, etc. After Mr. Beadle began to examine the history of the Mormon church; and while all the Mormon people spoke of Bill Hickman as a desperately bad man, and guilty of untold murders, he was struck by...

Parley P. Pratt, born April 12, 1807, was one of the important early leaders of the LDS church. His influence is felt not only through his work as one of the first apostles called in this dispensation, but also through his missionary work, writing, poems, and hymns.    After...

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...

In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed sources to...

A DIVIDED MORMON ZION: NORTHEASTERN OHIO OR WESTERN MISSOURI? This is Volume III of an epic, multi-volume work entitled The Quest for the New Jerusalem: A Mormon Generation Saga, which combines family, Mormon, and American history, focusing upon how the authors ancestors were affected by their...

2 works of Orson Ferguson Whitney Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1855-1931) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Orson Ferguson Whitney. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected....

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...