My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman
Author: William G. Hartley
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1365739686

""My Best for the Kingdom provides a valuable history of several little-known events in early Mormon history--the Church in Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1830s, the Danites in Missouri, Mormon resistance to Missouri persecutions, ... the James Emmett expedition, [and] pioneer Spanish Fork, Utah...John L. Butler's autobiography, given here in full, rivals and adds to the accounts of Hosea Stout and John D. Lee in telling the Mormon story of the 1830s, '40s, and '50s. Butler was a valiant militiaman, missionary, frontiersman, and bishop. A fast-moving, informative, well-researched and well-told account of Mormonism on the frontier...and pioneer Utah.""--Leonard J. Arrington quoted on the back outside jacket. This is the 3rd printing of My Best for the Kingdom (ISBN 978-1-365-73968-2) and is the same as the 2nd printing (ISBN 978-0-9843965-2-8) and 1st printing (ISBN 1-56236-212-7) versions except that the front & end papers (family chart and map) on the previous versions are now included as the final two pages.

John Lowe Butler

John Lowe Butler
Author: William G. Hartley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 491
Release: 1992
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, 1801-1861

Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, 1801-1861
Author: John Lowe Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1957
Genre: Utah Expedition
ISBN:

Collection includes three typewritten versions of the autobiography of John Lowe Butler. The autobiographies describe Butler's conversion to the Latter-day Saint Church, building Nauvoo, Illinois, officiating in the temple, experiences as Joseph Smith's bodyguard, the martyrdom of Smith, the expulsion from Nauvoo, the journey to Utah, the colonization of Spanish Fork, Utah, the Utah War and genealogical information of the Butler family, family wills and patriarchal blessings.

Imperial Zions

Imperial Zions
Author: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2022-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496214609

Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.

William B. Smith

William B. Smith
Author: Kyle R. Walker
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

2016 Best Biography Award, John Whitmer Historical Association Younger brother of Joseph Smith, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Church Patriarch for a time, William Smith had tumultuous yet devoted relationships with Joseph, his fellow members of the Twelve, and the LDS and RLDS (Community of Christ) churches. Walker's imposing biography examines not only William's complex life in detail, but also sheds additional light on the family dynamics of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, as well as the turbulent intersections between the LDS and RLDS churches. William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet is a vital contribution to Mormon history in both the LDS and RLDS traditions.

Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls
Author: S. Scott Rohrer
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 080783372X

In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic types. The most common type involved migrations motivated by religion, economics, and family, in which Puritans, Methodists, Moravians, and others headed to the frontier as individuals in search of religious and social fulfillment. The other type involved groups wanting to escape persecution (such as the Mormons) or to establish communities where they could practice their faith in peace (such as the Inspirationists). --from publisher description.

Historical Dictionary of Mormonism

Historical Dictionary of Mormonism
Author: Davis Bitton
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2008-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0810862514

Clearing up many of the misconceptions held about Mormonism and its members, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mormonism expands on the second edition and includes hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, churches, beliefs, and events.

Excavating Mormon Pasts

Excavating Mormon Pasts
Author: Newell C. Bringhurst
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2004-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century.