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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Derek Sainsbury, a professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University ... when the faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, became the first U.S. presidential candidate to be slain ...

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 ...

Brigham Young. He was indeed one of the founding fathers of Mormonism and the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After Joseph Smith's death, he brought thousands ...