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  • Surviving Wounded Knee

    The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory

    by David W. Grua ...
    On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers- including men, women, and children-at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army and some whites, Wounded Knee was the site where a heroic victory was achieved against the fanatical Chief Big Foot and his treacherous ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Joseph Smith Papers, Legal Records: Case Introductions

    by Jeffrey D. Mahas; Elizabeth A. Kuehn; Chad O. Fougler ...
    Legal Records: Case Introductions contextualizes Joseph Smith’s interactions with the law as a plaintiff/complainant, defendant, witness, or judge in approximately two hundred cases between 1819 and 1844. It also offers helpful analyses of the trial of his accused assassins and of the disposition of his estate. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 15: 16 May28 June 1844

    Edited by Brett D. Dowdle, Adam H. Petty, J. Chase Kirkham; Elizabeth A. Kuehn; David W. Grua; Matthew C. Godfrey ...
    Series Book 15 - Joseph Smith Papers
    The fifteenth and last volume in the Documents series covers the tumultuous final six weeks of Joseph Smith’s life, illuminating especially the events that led to his death. It features one hundred and five documents, representing the core of his documentary output during this period, including his correspondence, accounts of his discourses, administrative minutes, municipal documents, military ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    A Life

    by Michael Burlingame ...
    In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard ...
    On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Brigham Young

    by John G. Turner ...
    Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lincoln in Private

    What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President

    by Ronald C. White ...
    **“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”—The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD • From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse into the intellectual journey of our sixteenth president through his private notes to himself, explored together here for the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Brigham Young

    by Leonard J. Arrington ...
    Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Original Intent

    The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

    by David Barton ...
    In their own words, the Supreme Court has become “a national theology board,” “a super board of education,” and amateur psychologists on a “psycho-journey.” The result has been a virtual rewriting of the liberties enumerated in the Constitution. A direct victim of this judicial micromanagement has been the religious aspect of the First Amendment. For example, the Court now interprets that ... Read more

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  • The Mormon Hierarchy

    Origins of Power

    by D. Michael Quinn ...
    Converts to Joseph Smith’s 1828 restoration of primitive Christianity were attracted to the non-hierarchical nature of the movement. It was precisely because there were no priests, ordinances, or dogma that people joined in such numbers. Smith intended everyone to be a prophet, and anyone who felt called was invited to minister freely without formal office.Not until seven years later did Mormons ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Vengeance Is Mine

    The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath

    by Richard E. Turley, Barbara Jones Brown ...
    The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blood of the Prophets

    Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Will Bagley ...
    The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD