First published in 1855, Boadicea; the Mormon Wife belongs to a sub-genre of crime fiction that flourished in the Eastern United States during the 1850s.Boadicea has become increasingly important to scholars of Mormonism because it gives us a glimpse of the Mormon image in literature immediately after the Church’s public acknowledgement of plural marriage. Over the next half century, this image would be sharpened and refined by writers with different rhetorical goals: to end polygamy, to a...

Dime novels probably did more than any other kind of book to turn lower- and middle-class Americans into both book owners and book readers. They were so cheap that almost anyone could afford them, and so exciting that almost everybody wanted to read them. It’s hard to tell just how many of these dime novels featured Mormons, but the way Mormons were portrayed in dime novels was remarkably consistent over many decades and multiple genres. This consistency tells us that dime novelists were p...

Covering its historic development, important individuals, and central ideas and issues, this encyclopedia offers broad historical coverage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia helps readers explore a church that has gone from being an object of ridicule and sometimes violent persecution to a worldwide religion, counting prominent businesspeople and political leaders among its members (including former Mass...

Published in 1853, the first American novel about the Mormons is also one of the best. John Russell, an Illinois journalist and educator, witnessed the persecution in Missouri and Illinois and generally sympathized with the Saints. The Mormoness tells the story of Mary Maverick, the heroine of the novel, who joined the Mormon Church when her husband was converted in Illinois. Though not initially a believer, Mary embraces her identity as “the Mormoness” when her husband and son ar...

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 true story behind David Ebershoff’s bestseller “The 19th Wife”!

This book-collection file includes: 54-40 of Fight, The Covered Wagon, Girl at the Halfway House, Heart's Desire, The Law of the land, Maw's Vacation, The Mississippi bubble, The Purchase Price, The Sagebrusher, The Story of the Outlaw, The Way of a Man, The Young Alaskans, and The Young Alaskans on the Missouri. According to Wikipedia: "Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author, best known for writing western stories. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa, and graduated from the Universit...

Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received ...

In the first edition of The Mormon Mirage, Latayne C. Scott shared her remarkable journey out of Mormonism as she uncovered shocking inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and contradictions in the faith she had loved and lived. Thirty years later, Mormonism and Mormon scholarship have evolved with the times. In this third, revised and updated edition of her well-known book, Scott keeps pace with changes and advances in Mormonism, and reveals formidable new challenges to its claims and teachings. ...

50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1) is a meticulously curated anthology that showcases the rich tapestry of the American literary Western genre. This collection spans the gamut of iconic frontier narratives to lesser-known gems, highlighting the evolution and diversity of the genre. The anthology not only encapsulates classic elements of Western lore—vast landscapes, relentless pursuits, and moral battlegrounds—but also explores nuanced voices and complex themes offering a broad spectrum of styles from t...

**Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize (for best book on the history of Christianity by a North American scholar)New Yorker — "Best Books of 2024"Finalist, Best Book in Utah History, Utah Historical SocietyThe first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation.**The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in t...

The enduring saga of Mormonism is its great trek across the plains, and understanding that trek was the life work of Stanley B. Kimball, master of Mormon trails. This final work, a collaboration he began and which was completed after his death in 2003 by his photographer-writer wife, Violet, explores that movement westward as a social history, with the Mormons moving as “villages on wheels.”Set in the broader context of transcontinental migration to Oregon and California, the Mormon...