Massacre at Mountain Meadows
10 best books like Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Ronald W. Walker): Wolfskin, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young: American Moses, Eve and the Choice Made in Eden, The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846, My Abandonment
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 0765345900 |
"Eyvind can think of no more glorious future than becoming a Wolfskin, a warrior devoted to the service of the mighty war god Thor. His closest friend, Somerled, a strange and lonely boy, has his own very different ambitions - yet a childhood oath, sworn in blood, binds these two in lifelong loyalty. Meanwhile,...
| Author | Richard L. Bushman |
| ISBN | 1400077532 |
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an...
| Author | Gregory A. Prince |
| ISBN | 0874808227 |
Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence...
| Author | John G. Turner |
| ISBN | 0674049675 |
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a...
Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph’s first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with...
The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
| Author | Leonard J. Arrington |
| ISBN | 0252062361 |
This book is an effort by two LDS historians to write a comprehensive history of the church that could be used as a college text or for those interested in a one volume study of the church. It is somewhat dated having been written in the 1970's or 80's. I really enjoyed it because although it was an academic...
| Author | Leonard J. Arrington |
| ISBN | 0252012968 |
"Brigham Young was the supreme American paradox, not because he contained elements foreign to American soil but because he united them--the business genius of a Rockefeller with the spiritual sensitivities of an Emerson, the lusty enjoyments of the pleasures of good living with the tenderness of...
Eve and the Choice Made in Eden
| Author | Beverly Campbell |
| ISBN | 1570088837 |
Is the way that women evaluate their own worth affected still by the biblical story of Mother Eve? Author Beverly Campbell suggests, “In much of the literature and in most of the histories referring to women there is an undercurrent of apology, as though there is something not quite 'all right' about...
The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846
| Author | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him,...
| Author | Peter Rock |
| ISBN | 0151014140 |
A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, the enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. There they inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, bathe in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts....
