The founder and first prophet of Mormonism authored the three Mormon books. Joseph Smith (1805-1844) claimed he received ...

Like other leaders of his day and our own day, Brigham Young sometimes used violent rhetoric. But his actions tell a different story. In winter 1838, while Joseph Smith was imprisoned on false ...

“Brigham Young as he really spoke was far more inclusive ... summarizes as “a total desire to serve God, to follow Joseph Smith, to teach the gospel, to lead the people and establish ...

Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached ... about in the context of a rising conflict between Mormon leader Brigham Young and the federal government. When the Mormons had first ...

Brigham Young biographer Leonard J ... By then, the practice of plural marriage had expanded beyond Joseph Smith's inner circle, and word of it had been passed by non-Mormon emigrants passing ...

Joseph Smith announces a revelation setting up the ... Smith and most of his followers -- including a new member named Brigham Young -- leave Kirtland for Independence, Missouri, where Smith ...

The second pronouncement, in particular, causes great division among Mormons, with Brigham Young stating he would rather die and Joseph Smith's wife Emma expressing opposition even though the ...

Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries shied ... 1865, from the Mormon Panorama. Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art Just a few months after the Mormon Church was founded ...