Todd M Compton: 2 books
A Frontier Life
Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies
Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton examines and disentangles many...
by Leland Homer Gentry, Todd M. Compton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares.
The Missouri period--especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over vigorous, personal direction of this new Zion until the spring of 1839 when he escaped after five months of imprisonment--represents a moment of intense...