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This book, originally published in 1956, was written by famed Mormon authors Austin and Alta Fife. Based on hundreds of interviews with Mormons, old and young, far and they aimed to present a Mormon view of their culture, society and history. Specific topics include typical life-cycle events, the early history and founding of the Mormon Church, missionary activities, polygamy, Mormon-Indian relations, supernatural beliefs and practices, the establishment...
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Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
2011
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x, 243 p. ; 22 cm
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English
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Mormons gave to supernatural legends and events distinctive meanings related to Mormon theology and culture, but such narratives incorporated motifs found in many cultures. Many such historical legends and beliefs continue to find adherents down to the present. In this collection, historians employ folklore to illuminate the cultural and religious history of the Mormon people.
7) Family recordings of Nauvoo -- 1845 and before: including minutes of the first LDS family gathering
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Stanway Printing Co
Pub. Date
1965
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48 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Charles Redd monographs in western history volume no. 9
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Brigham Young University Press
Pub. Date
c1978
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xiii, 169 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.
"A haunting, harrowing testament to survival." — People Magazine
"An addictive chronicle of a polygamist community." — New York Magazine
Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural
12) In a rugged land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon towns collaboration, 1953-1954
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The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Though photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, most of their work portrays contrasting subject matter. Lange's artistic photodocumentation set a new aesthetic standard for social commentary; Adams lit up nature's wonders with an unfailing eye and preeminent technical skill. That they joined together to photograph Mormons in Utah in the early 1950s for Life magazine may come as a surprise. In a Rugged...
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"A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons...
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