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English
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Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
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Norman, OK
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University of Oklahoma Press
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"Following the murder in 1844 of church founder Joseph Smith, Young bore a heavy responsibility : ensuring the survival and expansion of the church and its people. Alexander focuses on Young's leadership, his financial dealings, his relations with non-Mormons, his families, and his own deep religious conviction. Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith addresses such controversial issues as the practice of polygamy (Young himself had fifty-five wives), relations and conflicts between Mormons and Indians, and the circumstances and aftermath of the horrific events of Mountain Meadows in 1857. Although Young might have done better, Alexander argues that he bore no direct responsibility for the tragedy. Young relied on the counsel of his associates, and at times, the Mormon people pushed back to prevent him from implementing changes. In some cases, such as polygamy and the doctrine of blood atonement, the church leadership eventually rejected his views. Yet on the whole, Brigham Young emerges as a multifaceted human figure, and as a prophet revered by millions of LDS members, an inspired leader who successfully led his people to a distant land where their community expanded and flourished." [Book Abstract]
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A Call to Arms : The 1838 Defense of Northern Missouri
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Across the Continent : A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
All that was Promised : The St. George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
American Grace : How Religion Divides and Unites Us
American Massacre : The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
Analyzing the Success of ZCMI in Pioneer Utah
An Experiment in Progressive Legislation : The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
At Sword's Point, Part 2 : A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859
Black and Mormon
Blessed Damozels : Women in Mormon History
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham's Destroying Angel
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier
Brigham Young at Home
Brigham Young in Life and Death : A Medical Overview
Brigham Young : Man of the Spirit
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Brigham Young, the Colonizer
Brigham Young : The New York Years
Brigham Young, The Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Carpetbaggers, Reprobates, and Liars : Federal Judges and the Utah War
Church Chronology
Civil War Saints
Col. Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons
Conflict and Fraud: Utah Public Land Surveys in the 1850s, the Subsequent Investigation and Problems with the Land Disposal System
Demographic Limits of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Polygyny
Diary of Brigham Young, 1857
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy : Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Fairness in the Salt Lake County Probate Court
Fort Limhi : The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858
Garland Hurt, the American Friend of the Utahs
Glory Hunter : A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor
God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land : Faith and Conflict in the American West
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Health and Medicine among the Latter-day Saints : Science, Sense, and Scripture
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
Heroines of the Church : Biography of Mary Ann Angell Young
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
History of Utah
Indian Relations in Utah during the Civil War
Innovation and Accommodation : The Legal Status of Women in Territorial Utah, 1850-1896
Joseph Morris and the saga of the Morrisites (revisited)
Joseph Smith Papers : Histories, 1832-1844, Vol. 1
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Journal of Thomas Bullock
Journals, Volume 3 : May 1843-June 1844
Justice for All or for the 'Elect'? : The Utah County Probate Court, 1855-72
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Literary Form and Historical Understanding : Joseph Smith's First Vision
"Lonely Bones" : Leadership and Utah War Violence
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Legend and a Monumental Crime
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism and Music : A History
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unveiled : The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young
Mormon Resistance : A documentary account of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858
Mormon Thunder : A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Nauvoo Polygamy : "... But We Called it Celestial Marriage"
Nauvoo Polygamy : "But We Called It Celestial Marriage"
Notes on Apostolic Succession
Of Pride and Politics : Brigham Young as Indian Superintendent
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Open Hand and Mailed Fist : Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-52
Protecting the Home Front : The Utah Territorial Militia During the Civil War
"Proud as a Peacock and Ignorant as a Jackass" : William W. Drummond's Unusual Career with the Mormons
"Pursue, Retake & Punish" : The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Sagwitch : Shoshoni Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1884
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867-1883
Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
"Tempered for Glory" : Brigham Young's Cosmological Theodicy
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Administration of Indian Affairs in Utah, 1851-1858
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Bear River Massacre : New Historical Evidence
The Bear River Massacre : New Historical Evidence
The Civil War Years in Utah : The Kingdom of God and the Territory that did not Fight
The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young
The Constitution of the State of Deseret
The Conversion of Sidney Rigdon to Mormonism
The Council of Fifty : A Documentary History
The Deseret Telegraph--A Church-Owned Public Utility
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society : Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History
'The Fulness of the Priesthood' : The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The House of the Lord : A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
The Joseph Smith Papers : Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Kirtland Economy Revisited : A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
The Lion of the Lord : A Biography of Brigham Young
The Lot Smith Cavalry Company : Utah Goes to War
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Cotton Mission in Southern Utah
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Wealth and Corporate Power
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West
The Mormon Tithing House : A Frontier Business Institution
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846 : A Documentary History
The Nauvoo Exodus and Crossing the Ice Myths
The Office Journal of President Brigham Young 1858-1863, Book D
The Orson Pratt--Brigham Young Controversies : Conflict Within the Quorums, 1853-1868
The Priesthood Reorganization of 1877 : Brigham Young's Last Achievement
The Prophet and the Reformer : The Letters of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
The Saints and the Union : Utah Territory during the Civil War
The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre
The Tintic War of 1856 : A Study of Several Conflicts
The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows Massacre : Toward a Consensus Account and Time Line
The Tragedy of Mountain Meadows Massacre : Toward a Consensus Account and Time Line
The Transcontinental Railroad and Mormon Economic Policy
The Walker War : Defense and Conciliation as Strategy
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Thomas L. Kane and the Mormon Problem in National Politics
Toward a Reconstruction of Mormon and Indian Relations, 1847-1877
Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona
Unpopular Sovereignty : Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
Utah and the American Civil War : The Written Record
Utah's Black Hawk War
Violence Across the Land : Vigilantism and Extralegal Justice in the Utah Territory
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
“We Know No North, No South, No East, No West” : Mormon Interpretations of the Civil War, 1861–65
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William B. Smith and the "Josephites"
William B. Smith : In the Shadow of a Prophet
Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah
Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?
"Worlds Without End" : The Cosmological Theodicy of Brigham Young
"You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out" : Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900