Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet / John G. Turner.
Turner, John G., author.
2012
BX8695.Y7
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Title Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet / John G. Turner.
Author Turner, John G., author.
ISBN 9780674067318
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067318
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 42 halftones, 4 maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067318 doi
Call Number BX8695.Y7
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.3092
Summary Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical exposé, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion. After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic. Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Prologue
Chapter one. A New Creature
Chapter two. The Tongues of Angels
Chapter three. Acts of the Apostles
Chapter four. New and Everlasting Covenant
Chapter five. Prophets and Pretenders
Chapter six. Word and Will
Chapter seven. A New Era of Things
Chapter eight. One Family
Chapter nine. Go Ahead
Chapter ten. The Whirlwind
Chapter eleven. Let Him Alone
Chapter twelve. The Monster in the Vale
Chapter thirteen. The Soul and Mainspring of the West
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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