books by The Arthur H. Clark Company     books:       Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 Polly Aird The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009 Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his native Scotland in the mid-1840s. The uncertainty his family faced in a rapidly industrializing economy, the political turmoil erupting across Europe, the welter of competing religions—all were signs of the imminent end of time, the missionaries warned. For those who would journey to a new Zion in the American West, opportunity and spiritual redemption awaited. When McAuslan ...             The Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons ... David L. Bigler The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1998 Mormonism's formative years in the West have never been evaluated with the clarity and objectivity David L. Bigler brings to the story of our nation's most unique territory and its proud and peculiar people. Forgotten Kingdom combines an insightful understanding of the theology of early Mormonism with a lifetime of research into federal and LDS church sources to forge a creative reinterpretation of this fascinating and contentious history. ...             Indian Views of the Custer Fight: A Source Book (Frontier Military Series) Richard G. Hardorff The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004 A much-neglected source of first-hand views on the Battle of the Little Bighorn is presented in this third and final volume of Indian testimony collected by award-winning author Richard G. Hardorff. Like its companion volumes, Lakota Recollections and Cheyenne Memories, Indian Views offers thirty-five interviews and statements from Indians who were eyewitnesses to the battle. Here is the story of the battle as told through the observations of ...             Fort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory 1855-1858 (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the ... David L. Bigler The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003 In 1855 the Mormons established a mission at the foot of famous Lemhi Pass near Salmon River, where the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery first crossed the Continental Divide and Sacagawea was reunited with her brother. Fort Limhi was, at first, part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' outreach to the Indians throughout the West. But the mission soon assumed a critical role in Brigham Young's plans for the Saints as they faced ...             Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier) Will Bagley, David L. Bigler The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2000 "History may be searched in vain for an equal march of infantry," said Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke in commending the Mormon Battalion for its epic march in 1846 from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego and Los Angeles to claim California for the United States. Yet this historic journey across the Southwest during the War with Mexico was but one of the reasons the Mormon Battalion holds a unique place in the story of America's western ...             History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion Sherman L. Fleek The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006 The only religious unit in American military history. The Mormon battalion was unique in federal service, having been recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. Serving in the Mexican War, they marched across the Southwest to California. Strangely, though, the battalion's story has not been told from the perspective of the profession of arms. Since it did not engage in battle, military ...             Adventures in the Santa Fe trade, 1844-1847, (The Southwest historical series) James Josiah Webb The Arthur H. Clark company, 1931 James Josiah Webb left Independence, Missouri, in the summer of 1844 and headed down the Santa Fe Trail with goods bought in St. Louis. Although his first venture as a trader was a failure, he eventually made a fortune as a merchant in Santa Fe. Webb recorded his youthful experiences in 1888, and Ralph P. Bieber, a respected scholar and researcher on western expansion, edited and annotated his journal for publication more than forty years later. ...             At Sword's Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858 (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and ... William P. MacKinnon The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008 The definitive account of a crucial but enigmatic American episode The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history of that extraordinary conflict. William P. MacKinnon offers a lively narrative ...             Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre ( (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and ... The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008 The slaughter of a wagon train of some 120 people in southern Utah on September 11, 1857, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. Innocent Blood gathers key primary sources describing the tangled story of the Mountain Meadows massacre. This wide array of contrasting perspectives, many never before published, provide a powerful and intimate picture of this “dastardly outrage” and its cover-up. A fine addition to the Kingdom in the ...             Doing the Works of Abraham, Mormon Polygamy: Its Origin, Practice, and Demise (Kingdom in the West: The ... B. Carmon Hardy The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2007 Winner: Best Documentary Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society. Celestial Marriage—the “doctrine of the plurality of wives”—polygamy. No issue in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (popularly known as the Mormon Church) has attracted more attention. From its contentious and secretive beginnings in the 1830s to its public proclamation in 1852, and through almost four decades of bitter conflict with ...             So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 (Overland West Series) Will Bagley The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2010 A sweeping narrative of a classic journey The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this ...             Guarding the Overland Trails: The Eleventh Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War (Frontier Military Series) Robert Huhn Jones The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005 The Civil War left the western trails vulnerable and dangerous. Emigrants still streamed westward and demanded protection. The mail still had to be delivered, the telegraph protected. The newly minted states of California and Oregon on the Pacific Coast were precious to the government in Washington, D.C., and the Mormon settlements in the Great Basin demanded close attention following the Utah War of 1858. The 11th Ohio played a crucial role ...             The Man from the Rio Grande: A Biography of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers who tracked down ... William B. Secrest The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005 Like some mysterious Paladin, Harry Love seemed to suddenly appear on the California landscape at a time when he was particularly needed. As captain of the California Rangers, Love pursued Joaquin Murrieta and his bandits, and the outlaw was captured and killed. Then, his job done, he again faded into obscurity. Where did he come from? What was his life before, and after, the Murrieta affair? From Texas to California, this enigmatic and shadowy ...             Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 Le Roy Reuben Hafen The Arthur H. Clark company, 1938 To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the colorful history of Fort Laramie from its establishment as Fort John in 1834 to its abandonment in 1890. Early on, the fort was controlled by the ...             Land, as Far as the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West (Western Lands and Waters Series, No. 21) Donald Warrin, Geoffrey L. Gomes The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2001 This is a pioneering work in a field long neglected by both popular and academic historians. It is the tale of men and women from Portugal who settled the frontier in the vast American West. It is innovative in structure, mingling in its parts biographical studies, geographical focus, and occupational pursuits. Over 50 photos and 5 maps illuminate the text. 352 pages, with extensive notes, bibliography, and index. Protected in a color dust ...             Nauvoo Legion in Illinois: A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841-1846 Richard E Bennett, Susan Easton Black, ... The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2010 When the Mormons established their theocratic city of Nauvoo on the banks of the Mississippi in 1839, they made self-defense a priority, having encountered persecution, violence, and forcible expulsion elsewhere. Organized under Illinois law, the Nauvoo Legion was a city militia made up primarily of Latter-day Saints. This comprehensive work on the history, structure, and purpose of the Nauvoo Legion traces its unique story from its founding to ...              search for books 1812-1848, 1834-1890, 1841-1846, 1844-1847, 1847-1896, 1848-1861, 1855-1858, adventure, adventures, battalion, biography, california, documentary, essential, forgotten, frontiersmen, historical, immigrant, innocent, massacre, mountain, mountainous, narratives, polygamy, portuguese, practice, searched, southwest, territory, theocracy books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen Love, Wrinkle Free home  impressum - about us