Download Full eBooks in PDF
Murder Of The Mormon Prophet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Murder Of The Mormon Prophet book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : LeGrand L. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 1890718238
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400078998
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Cults
ISBN : 0735100454
Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610393140
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting his own religion and creating his own "Golden Bible”--the Book of Mormon--he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. He’d led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chicago. He was running for president. And, secretly, he had married more than thirty women. In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: How his most seismic revelation--the doctrine of polygamy--created a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. Mormonism is America’s largest and most enduring native religion, and the "martyrdom” of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational events. Smith’s brutal assassination propelled the Mormons to colonize the American West and claim their place in the mainstream of American history. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence, with deep roots in our national identity.
Author : Keith Gibson Huntress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : UCAL:B5022222
Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780806186849
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.
Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780316463584
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
Author : Steven Naifeh,Gregory White Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250087423
On October 15, 1985, two pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake City, Utah, killing two people. The only link-both victims belonged to the Mormon Church. The next day, a third bomb was detonated in the parked car of church-going family man, Mark Hoffman. Incredibly, he survived. It wasn't until authorities questioned the strangely evasive Hoffman that another, more shocking link between the victims emerged... It was the appearance of an alleged historic document that challenged the very bedrock of Mormon teaching, questioned the legitimacy of its founder, and threatened to disillusion millions of its faithful-unless the Mormon hierarchy buried the evidence.
Author : Dallin H Oaks,Marvin S Hill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 025200762X
Carthage Conspiracy deals with the general problem of Mormon/non-Mormon conflict, as well as with the dramatic story of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and their alleged assassins. It places the infamous event at the Carthage jail (1846) and the subsequent murder-conspiracy trial in the context of Mormon and American legal history, and deals with the question of achieving justice when crimes are politically motivated and popularly supported.
Author : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014489280
Author : Claire Booth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0425219747
Describes how stockbroker Taylor Helzer, his brother Justin, and a malleable girl named Dawn formed an alliance, stole money from unsuspecting former clients, and then brutally murdered them.
Author : Scott Anderson
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cults
ISBN : WISC:89067427039
Church. As compelling as the best fiction, The 4 O'Clock Murders is all the more terrifying because it is true.
Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0380715023
Author : John R. Llewellyn
Publisher : Agreka Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 188810693X
A Fact Based Novel.
Author : George T M. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590288304