At the end of a distinguished career, this veteran historian turns an eye toward his final subject, himself. In doing so, he displays the candor that characterized his fifteen previous books. Among his achievements, Madsen was the first to unearth evidence of a massacre at the Bear River in Idaho (now a national monument) and was first to publish the writings of LDS leader B. H. Roberts questioning the Book of Mormon as literal history. ...

William Adams ("Wild Bill") Hickman was one of the most notorious outlaws of the nineteenth-century American frontier. During the 1840s and 1850s, he served as a trusted aide and spy to LDS church presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Hickman left an indelible impact on the history and myth of the West as a rough, undisciplined frontiersman who nevertheless helped to establish the Rocky Mountain kingdom of the Mormons. ...

Using their unique question-and-answer style, Ankerberg and Weldon look candidly at Mormon teachings that are clearly incompatible with orthodox Christianity. In clarifying the meanings of the terms that Mormons use, as well as Mormon views on the Bible, the authors reveal the huge chasm between what Mormons and Christians believe. ...

This is the autobiographical account of Bill Hickman, Chief of the Destroying Angels, Head Danite, etc. After Mr. Beadle began to examine the history of the Mormon church; and while all the Mormon people spoke of Bill Hickman as a desperately bad man, and guilty of untold murders, he was struck by two curious and then unexplainable facts. The first was that while everybody, from Brigham Young down, united in calling Hickman a murderer, and while ...

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Warren Jeffs is expanding into Texas. Their citizens, law enforcement, and government need an in depth understanding of polygamy, how they developed over the years, the strategies they employ, how they deal with outsiders. Not unlike Iraq, our country faces a serious violation of freedom and human rights. This is America, after all, -- and in America, we defend freedom ...

Sisters from varied life and Church circumstances share their thoughts about this midweek meeting with humility, humor, and candor. ...

1868. From the Preface: No apology is offered for presenting to the public the only authentic account of Brigham Young, of his polygamous family, and of that complicated and incongruous system of social and political machinery, called Mormonism. The chief interest of the work, however, with a large class of readers, will doubtless consist in the information it contains, relative to the family and social relations of the celebrated Mormon leader. ...

1909. Gibbs, a noted Utah journalist and student of history of central and southern Utah, was the author of many anti-Mormon and historical essays including his controversial book, Lights and Shadows of Mormonism. The book covers a history of Mormonism including the life of Joseph Smith, political events of church and state to 1909, and many other diverse subject matters pertaining to Mormons and the Mormon Church. ...

1845. This pamphlet is a clever discourse between Joseph Smith and the Devil about how the Mormons are disrupting the world of Christendom, which in turn is disrupting the Devil's power over earth. ...