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This is the Place - Brigham Young and the New Zion (Hardcover, New)
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This is the Place - Brigham Young and the New Zion (Hardcover, New)
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The unfolding of the American West is paralleled by the evolution
of the Mormon religion. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints was founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith. Public hostility to his
claims of divine revelations drove the Mormons from New York State
to Missouri to Illinois, where Smith was murdered by a furious mob.
Leadership was eventually assumed by Brigham Young, who guided his
flock westward in search of the 'New Zion'. Legend has it that,
when they reached the vast open spaces of the Great Basin, he ended
the journey by declaring, 'This is the place'. Building on his
critically acclaimed book about the origins of the Mormon faith,
Ernest H Taves offers further stylometric analysis of texts from
the "Book of Mormon" and recounts the spellbinding story of the
cross-continental trek and establishment of the Mormon empire.
Covering the years between Smith's assassination in 1844 to the
completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, Taves also
includes discussion of polygamy and its effect on Utah's petition
for statehood, and the economic impact of the 1849 gold rush on the
Mormon community. A story of both monumental triumph and intense
tragedy, "This is the Place" is a critical yet sympathetic
examination of an integral part of American history.
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