LEADER 03891nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910823071203321 005 20230809015624.0 010 $a0-674-07179-4 010 $a0-674-06731-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067318 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241870 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24437908 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755202 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11409795 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755202 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730559 035 $a(PQKB)10893049 035 $a(DE-B1597)177971 035 $a(OCoLC)810933433 035 $a(OCoLC)840435931 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067318 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301132 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602457 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301132 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241870 100 $a20120425d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrigham Young, pioneer prophet$b[electronic resource] /$fJohn G. Turner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 500 pages )$cillustrations, maps 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 0 $a0-674-04967-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tPrologue --$tChapter one. A New Creature --$tChapter two. The Tongues of Angels --$tChapter three. Acts of the Apostles --$tChapter four. New and Everlasting Covenant --$tChapter five. Prophets and Pretenders --$tChapter six. Word and Will --$tChapter seven. A New Era of Things --$tChapter eight. One Family --$tChapter nine. Go Ahead --$tChapter ten. The Whirlwind --$tChapter eleven. Let Him Alone --$tChapter twelve. The Monster in the Vale --$tChapter thirteen. The Soul and Mainspring of the West --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aBrigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical exposé, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion. After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic. Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West. 606 $aLatter Day Saint churches$xPresidents$vBiography 615 0$aLatter Day Saint churches$xPresidents 676 $a289.3092 676 $aB 700 $aTurner$b John G$0156951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823071203321 996 $aBrigham Young, pioneer prophet$93997001 997 $aUNINA