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Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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"Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were murdered in Carthage, Illinois. The trauma of that event remained with Joseph F. for the rest of his life, affecting his personal behavior and public tenure in the highest tiers of the LDS Church, including the post of president from 1901 until his death in 1918. Joseph F. Smith laid the theological groundwork for modern Mormonism, especially the emphasis on temple work. This contribution was capped off by his 'revelation on the redemption of the dead,' a prophetic glimpse into the afterlife. Taysom’s book traces the roots of this vision, which reach far more deeply into Joseph F. Smith’s life than other scholars have previously identified.
"In this first cradle-to-grave biography of Joseph F. Smith, Stephen C. Taysom uses previously unavailable primary source materials to craft a deeply detailed, insightful story of a prominent member of a governing and influential Mormon family. Importantly, Taysom situates Smith within the historical currents of American westward expansion, rapid industrialization, settler colonialism, regional and national politics, changing ideas about family and masculinity, and more. Though some writers tend to view the LDS Church and its leaders through a lens of political and religious separatism, Taysom does the opposite, pushing Joseph F. Smith and the LDS Church closer to the centers of power in Washington, DC, and elsewhere." [Summary from Project MUSE] -
1837 : Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis
A Firm Foundation : Church Organization and Administration
A Ministry of Meetings : The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Before the Beard : Trials of the Young Joseph F. Smith
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Boyhood Recollections of President Joseph F. Smith
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle : The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Christmas with the Prophets
Church, State, and Politics : The Diaries of John Henry Smith
Cowboy Apostle : The diaries of Anthony W. Ivins, 1875-1932
Devil's Gate : Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
Early Mormon Confrontations with Sectarianism, 1830-40
Fire and Sword : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
Go Ye into all the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History's Apprentice : The Diaries of B. H. Roberts
Hyrum Smith
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Inside the Salt Lake Temple : Gisbert Bossard's 1911 Photographs
Joseph Fielding Smith : Gospel Scholar, Prophet of God
Joseph F. Smith and the Importance of Family
Joseph F. Smith on Priesthood and Church Government
Joseph F. Smith : Patriarch and Preacher, Prophet of God
Joseph F. Smith: Reflections on the Man and His Times
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
Joseph Smith Sr.
Joseph Smith : The Prophet and Seer
Journals of John D. Lee 1846-47 and 1859
Journey to Zion : Voices from the Mormon Trail
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Latter Leaves in the Life of Lorenzo Snow
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Letters from Joseph F. Smith to His Adopted Son Edward Arthur Smith
Life of Joseph F. Smith, Sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Logan Temple : The First 100 Years
"Long Shall his Blood ... Stain Illinois" : Carthage Jail in Mormon Memory
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Moramona : The Mormons in Hawaii
Mormon Doctrine
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Religion in Nauvoo : Some Reflections
Mormons in Early Victorian Britain
Mormon Thunder : A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant
Moses Thatcher in the Dock : His Trials, the Aftermath, and His Last Days
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Prisoner for Conscience' Sake : The Life of George Reynolds
Reminiscences of Charles W. Nibley, 1849-1931
Reminiscences of Joseph, the Prophet, and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
Six Days in August : Brigham Young and the Succession Crisis of 1844
The Bullion, Beck, and Champion Mining Company and the Redemption of Zion
The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young
The Everlasting Spires : A Story of the Salt Lake Temple
The Haun's Mill Massacre and the Extermination Order of Missouri Governor Lillburn W. Boggs
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The House of the Lord : A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
The Journals of George Q. Cannon : Hawaiian Mission, 1850-1854
"The Last of the Old School" : Joseph F. Smith and Latter-day Saint Liturgy
The Last Pioneer
The Life and Thought of Orson Pratt
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846 : A Documentary History
The Palawai Pioneers on the Island of Lanai : The First Hawaiian Latter-day Saint Gathering Place (1854-1864)
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
The Ten Pioneering Missionaries of the Sandwich Islands, 1850-54
'They Might Have Known That He Was Not a Fallen Prophet' : The Nauvoo Journal of Joseph Fielding
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Triumphs of the Young Joseph F. Smith
United by Faith : The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family
Utah : A People's History
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Villages on Wheels : A Social History of the Gathering to Zion
Was Joseph F. Smith Blessed by His Father Hyrum Smith in Liberty Jail?
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Women and Mormon Authority
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women of Faith in the Latter Days : Volume 2, 1821-1845
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900