Item Detail
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2608
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35
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English
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George Laub's Nauvoo Journal
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BYU Studies
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Winter 1978
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18
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151-78
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"Despite his unusually informative and moving Nauvoo Journal, George Laub is not well known to Latter-day Saints, or even to students of Mormon history. He was one of a number of faithful followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young who did not achieve notoriety--either through prominent position or through dramatic apostasy. But he was one of those ordinary Saints whose life was brushed by extraordinary events and forces and to whom our generation is increasingly attracted as we seek fuller understanding, both of our pioneer past, and of our own possibilities, from such humble but engaging lives. We are fortunate indeed to have this slim journal preserved in the LDS Church Archives. It not only provides essentially all we know of George Laub's early life but also gives us a unique record of such things as some of Joseph Smith's sermons, his martyrdom, and the earliest account of the 1844 "transfiguration" of Brigham Young when he was given the Prophet's "mantle" of authority. The journal represents one of those small miracles of nineteenth century Mormonism that we are still learning to appreciate more fully, partly because of their rarity in the twentieth--that a person without literary training, engaged often in desperate struggles for survival against men and nature, should be moved by his faith to make the effort to create a remarkably literate and enduring account of his great loyalties, his joys, his losses, of the events and ideas that shaped his life." [Publisher's abstract]
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Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Faithful and Fearless : Major Howard Egan : Early Mormonism and the Pioneering of the American West
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt : Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Joseph Smith's 19 July 1840 Discourse
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph's Red Brick Store
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
"Marshaled and Disciplined for War" : A Documentary Chronology of Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois 1839-1845
Mormon Bibliography 1978
Mormonism's Satan and the Tree of Life
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
"One Soul Shall Not Be Lost" : The War in Heaven in Mormon Thought
Perfection and Progression : Two Complementary Ways to Talk about God
Priceless Words and Fallible Memories : Joseph Smith as Seen in the Effort to Preserve His Discourses
Road to Martyrdom : Joseph Smith's Last Legal Cases
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The King Follett Discourse: Pinnacle or Peripheral?
The Language of Heaven : Prolegomenon to the Study of Smithian Translation
The Making of a Mormon Myth : The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young
The Mantle of Joseph : Creation of a Mormon Miracle
The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Passes to Brother Brigham : A Collective Spiritual Witness
The Significance of Nauvoo for Latter-day Saints
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
The Weeping God of Mormonism
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
'I Was Called to Dixie' : The Virgin River Basin : Unique Experiences in Mormon Pioneering
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
The Danite Band of 1838
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844