A Gathering of Saints

A Gathering of Saints
Author: Robert Lindsey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-04
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781501153112

From the author of The Falcon and The Snowman comes the true story of the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings and one man’s master plan to take down the powerful Mormon empire in this thrilling and fast-paced true crime tale of murder and mayhem depicted in the Netflix documentary Murder Among the Mormons. When a brilliant forger produced documents that threatened the foundations of the Mormon Church, the religions elders, unaware of the falsities, were willing to pay a fortune to suppress the information they exposed. In order to prevent the truth of his forgery from coming out, the man behind them put into motion two bomb explosions and left two people dead in his path. A Gathering of Saints gives readers a look at the bombing that revealed corporate fraud, death squads, religious wars, and numerous other shocking revelations that jeopardized the future of the Mormon Church.

Archie Ferguson

Archie Ferguson
Author: Steve Levi
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1637470479

Archie Ferguson is the last of the original fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Alaska bush pilots to be the subject of a biography. Dubbed Alaska's Clown Prince," he added many hilarious chapters to Alaska's history. He is also the originator of the "Arctic Bump," current practice of airline pilots who give a blast of power as they fly over the Arctic Circle to provide gullible tourists the impression that the air north of the Arctic Circle is different than air south of the Arctic Circle. His title, "the Craziest Pilot in the World, was given to him by The Saturday Evening Post in its December 1945 issue. Ferguson, who died in 1967, was an excellent example of the colorful character/con men who made Alaska what it is today."

Building Fires in the Snow

Building Fires in the Snow
Author: Martha Amore
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1602233012

Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state’s population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family—shopping, going out, working—to intimate encounters with Alaska’s breathtaking natural beauty. At a time of great change and major strides in LGBTQ civil rights, Building Fires in the Snow shows us an Alaska that shatters stereotypes and reveals a side of Alaska that’s been little seen until now.

Alaska

Alaska
Author: Marvin W. Falk
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

Even Kluwer--with only a sales office in the U.S.--prints CiP in their books. A house publishing books for libraries should always display cataloging-in-publication: irresponsible. This is another good bibliography in a widely used series. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Proclamation to the People

Proclamation to the People
Author: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Pacific basin frontier -- Nineteenth-century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin frontier : an introduction / Reid L. Neilson and Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Eastward ho! American religion from the perspective of the Pacific Rim / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Americas -- The rise and decline of Mormon San Bernardino / Edward Leo Lyman -- Hoping to establish a presence : Parley P. Pratt's 1851 mission to Chile / A. Delbert Palmer and Mark L. Grover -- A providential means of agitating Mormonism? : Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco press in the 1850s / Matthew J. Grow -- Polynesia -- Looking West : Mormonism and the Pacific world / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Mormon missionary wives in nineteenth-century Polynesia / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Life at Iosepa, Utah's Polynesian colony / Tracey E. Panek -- Australasia -- The gathering of the Australian saints in the 1850s / Marjorie Newton -- The Mormon message in the context of Maori culture / Peter Lineham -- Nineteenth-century Pakeha Mormons in New Zealand / Marjorie Newton -- Asia -- Meetings and migrations : nineteenth-century Mormon encounters with Asians / Reid L. Neilson -- Anodyne for expansion : Meiji Japan, the Mormons, and Charles Legendre / Sandra C. Taylor -- Race, space, and Chinese life in late-nineteenth-century Salt Lake City / Michael J. Lansing.

Birth & Rebirth on an Alaskan Island

Birth & Rebirth on an Alaskan Island
Author: Joanne B. Mulcahy
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780820322537

"Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island offers the fascinating story of Mary's life, from her experience growing up within the traditional society of Akhiok to her work as a teacher, a community health aide, a mother, a grandmother, and an Alutiiq midwife and healer. Through her story we discover a society that blended native Alutiiq culture with the Russian Orthodox teachings handed down from late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonists; the mixed modern education and employment with a subsistence lifestyle; that sanctioned arranged marriages but upheld civil divorce laws; and, above all, that recovered its confidence in traditional healing - both of the body and of the community.".

Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History

Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History
Author: Arnold K. Garr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1478
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

An authoritative, thorough, single-volume work on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.