Word: mormon
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...MORMON CHRONICLE: THE DIARIES OF JOHN D. LEE (1848-1 876)-Edited by Robert Glass Cleland & Juanita Brooks -Two volumes (824 pp.)-The Huntington Library...
Utah & the Saints. John D. Lee was born at Kaskaskia, Ill. in 1812. His background was Roman Catholic, but in 1838 he became a Mormon and was adopted as a "foster-son" by Brigham Young himself. Lee recognized and obeyed only two superiors-God Almighty and Brigham Young. If these two seemed to differ, then Lee went along with Young as the man who knew more than God about Utah and politics. So when the Mormons decided to press southward to establish new cities and expand the Kingdom of the Saints, Young made Lee one of the principal leaders...
...life, Lee needed Emma's sort of staunchness. Although these diaries do not contain his account of it, Lee had taken part in the brutal Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when more than a hundred "Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly killed by a troop of Mormons. The Civil War interrupted the Federal Government's prosecution of the case, involving 36 suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from the Mormon Church...
...easy to see why these Diaries have lain so long like buried treasure. They tell a story that must still be painful to Mormon pride; they dig up terrible incidents that many would rather forget. And yet, thanks to the quality that was in John D. Lee, and thanks to the healing march of time, no American can read these Diaries without thrilling to the roughhewn courage and tenacity that is written in every page of them...
Papa Married a Mormon, by John D. Fitzgerald. A pleasant, mock-bucolic Western memoir in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six-guns (TIME...