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Elizabeth Whitney Williams' memoir 'A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons' weaves an evocative portrait of her youth spent on Beaver Island in the mid-19th century, and her candid encounters with the Mormon community led by the enigmatic King Strang. Williams' personal narrative provides an intricate look at the complexities of American religious life and frontier existence. Her prose style resonates with a historical richness, traversing...
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"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of...
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