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1868 1ed Deseret Alphabet Book Mormon Brigham Young LDS: 1868 1ed Deseret Alphabet Book Mormon Brigham Young LDS Saints Mormonism Utah Beginning in 1847, Brigham Young and the Church of Latter-Day Saints developed a curious, English-like phoneme language. I

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1904 Polygamy in Mormonism Beadle Mormon Secret Rites: 1904 Polygamy in Mormonism Beadle Mormon Secret Rites Latter Day Saints LDS “In 1831, polygamy was condemned in a revelation to Joseph Smith, published in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. In July

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1888 MORMON Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints: 1888 MORMON Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints Littlefield Joseph Smith Brigham Young ‘Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints” is a mid-19th-century thorough and detailed account of the establishment

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1856 Mormons Latter-Day Saints Mormonism Gold Rush Utah

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1856 Mormons Latter-Day Saints Mormonism Gold Rush Utah Missouri WARS Polygamy

A fine 1856 edition of Liet. John W. Gunnison’s “The Mormons.” This pre-Civil War-era book covers the rise and social progression of the Mormons, their expedition toward Utah, and Gunnison’s own observations of their explorations. Important contents include:

•Priests as civil officers
•Origins of Mormonism
•Expectations of the Catholic church absorbing the Protestant
•Mormon deity, genealogy of gods, progression of man into Gods
•‘many wife’ systems
•Gold rush emigrants
•On profanity
•Selection of Jackson County, Missouri as Zion
•Wars in Missouri over Mormonism
•Election of Brigham Young
•Miracles, Slavery, Indian Wars, and self-government

Item number: #1598

Price: $350

GUNNISON, J.W.

The Mormons, or, Latter-day saints, in the valley of the Great salt lake : a history of their rise and progress, peculiar doctrines, present condition, and prospects, derived from personal observation: during a residence among them

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.

Details:
•Collation complete with all pages: [ix], 168, [48]
•References: Sabin 29285; Howes G 463;
•Handwritten – P. Baker, 1866.
•Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
•Language: English
•Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)

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