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What is byu sports network. Since the earliest days of the church brigham young has been a larger than life figure inspiring and motivating saints of both yesterday and today. Second president of the chu. His books include great basin kingdom.

His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the american mountain west. June 1 1801 august 29 1877 was an american religious leader politician and settlerhe was the second president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints lds church from 1847 until his death in 1877. Brigham young american religious leader second president of the mormon church and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the american west.

He founded salt lake city and he served as the first governor of the utah territoryyoung also led the foundings of the precursors to the. Brigham young was a rough hewn craftsman from new york whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the mormon faith. Brigham young was a rough hewn new york craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the mormon faith.

Brigham young b r em. Both positive and negative facts about the man are present but he he still portrayed as a frontier hero and missionary. An economic history of the latter day saints 18301900 and coauthor of the mormon experience.

Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. Life of brigham young is a historical treatise dealing primarily with the socio political developments of the latter day saints from their arrival in the salt lake valley in the late 1840s to the mid 1870s when the book was published. Arrington was lemuel redd professor of western history at brigham young university and the former director of the history division of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints.

And now author susan evans mccloud brings us a unique perspective on the man who despite his incredible accomplishments as a prophet colonizer and businessman valued his family and the individual saints above all the tr. A carpenter joiner painter and glazier young settled in 1829 at mendon new york near where the book of mormon was published in. Read 5 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.

At publication brigham young was seventy five years old and still the leader of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints but the book shows many. 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. Brigham young has 151 books on goodreads with 3801 ratings.

This biography of brigham young treats is life as a endorsement of the religion off the mormans. I think it has the opposite problem to fawn brodies no man knows my historyits not so much the subject matter of course it is strange but it is what it is its the fact that this book is so scrupulously sourced with constant references to primary sources and yet still presents an image of brigham young in which he appears benevolent and honest.