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Hope House, R. A. Christmas

BYU Studies

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The Mormon Pioneer Odometers, Norman Edward Wright

BYU Studies

This full account of the wooden machines that measured distances along the Mormon Trail documents interesting details and corrects old misconceptions.

Power From On High: The Development Of Mormon Priesthood, William G. Hartley

BYU Studies

Gregory A. Prince. Power from On High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995. 231 pp. Index. $24.95.

The Visionary World Of Joseph Smith, Richard Lyman Bushman

BYU Studies

Several people around the time of Joseph Smith had visionary experiences, opening a way for some to hear and receive the Prophet's unique messages.

The Sound Of Utah: The Presence Of Geographical Elements In Music Written About The State Of Utah, Kamia Walton Holt

Theses and Dissertations

Music is a by-product of place and time. Musicians have opportunities to use the idea of place in their music. Thus, music has regionally distinctive characteristics which reflect human perceptions of the physical environment. Artists of the past and present focus on geographical themes, and paint a picture of ‘place’ in their music. This thesis focuses on the music of a geographical location: Utah. Musicians wrote of Utah in hymns of the past, and contemporary musicians continue to write music about Utah. This thesis answers the questions: Is music characterized by geography? How have the local musicians been influenced by …

Some Reflections At Winter Quarters, Richard E. Bennett

Faculty Publications

On this Memorial Day weekend, it is altogether fitting and appropriate that we gather today at this sacred place to remember the lives of our progenitors everywhere. From Gettysburg to Hiroshima, from Arlington to Flanders Field, and from the city cemetery to the family plot, we honor our dead ancestors and friends long since stilled. Whether they died on the battle fields of war or perished in the labor of giving birth, we honor them. Whether on the trail to a new life in Oregon or a new chance in Ukraine, they all were the lifeline to our present bright …

A Voice From The Fire: The Authority Of Experience, Colleen C. Bernhard

Theses and Dissertations

Over all, this thesis was written to be a "ramble" of its own around and through three issues that are central to the writing of the personal essay-voice, authority, and experience-and central to the emergence of this author's own sense of "self."
Drawing upon years of voluminous journals, this collection of six personal essays demonstrates what the scholarly introduction proposes: that the personal essay is both a valid genre and a magnificent bridge from informal life-writing to genuine literary accomplishment. Drawing on Phillip Lopate's differentiation of "memoiristic" essays from the more classic autobiographical form, this collection includes three of each …

Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings Of Mary Haskin Parker Richards Maurine Carr Ward, Becky Bartholomew

BYU Studies

Maurine Carr Ward, ed. Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996. xvi; 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, biographical register, bilbiography, index. $29.95.

Index, Byu Studies

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The Mantle Of The Prophet Joseph Passes To Brother Brigham: A Collective Spiritual Witness, Lynne Watkins Jorgensen, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

After the death of Joseph Smith, many of the Saints reported that they received a strong spiritual witness that convinced them the mantle of Joseph had fallen on Brigham Young.

Brief Notices, Byu Studies

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Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

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Not Of This Fold, Sherrie Johnson

BYU Studies

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Keeping Promises: The Lds Church Enters Bulgaria, 1990-1994, Kahlile Mehr

BYU Studies

Opening Bulgaria to LDS missionaries is a story of public service and personal interaction that bore good fruit through helping needy people improve their personal conditions.

Exterior Symbolism Of The Salt Lake Temple: Reflecting The Faith That Called The Place Into Being, Richard G. Oman

BYU Studies

Exterior stonework on the Great Temple masterfully represents the Latter-day Saint understanding of the universe, time, the priesthood, and Jesus Christ and his gospel.

Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office Of Presiding Patriarch Irene M. Bates And E. Gary Smith, Richard Lyman Bushman

BYU Studies

Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. viii; 258 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $32.50.

“Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day”, Cynthia L. Hallen

BYU Studies

"It's the heart afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance."

–from "The Rose" by Amanda McBroom

Life In Zion: An Intimate Look At The Latter-Day Saints, 1820-1995 William W. Slaughter; The Mission: Inside The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Epicenter Communications And Matthew Naythons; Images Of Faith: Art Of The Latter-Day Saints Richard G. Oman And Robert O. Davis, Davis Bitton, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

BYU Studies

William W. Slaughter. Life in Zion: An Intimate Look at the Latter-day Saints, 1820-1995. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995. x; 196 pp. $24.95.

Epicenter Communications and Matthew Naythons, comps. The Mission: Inside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. New York: Warner Books, 1995. 226 pp. $49.95.

Richard G. Oman and Robert O. Davis. Images of Faith: Art of the Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995. xii; 202 pp. $49.95.

Behind The Iron Curtain: Recollections Of Latter-Day Saints In East Germany 1945-1989 Garold N. Davis And Norma S. Davis; Faith Rewarded: A Personal Account Of Prophetic Promises To The East German Saints Thomas S. Monson, James K. Lyon

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Garold N. Davis and Norma S. Davis, eds. Behind the Iron Curtain: Recollections of Latter-day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1989. Provo: BYU Studies, 1996. xiv, 351 pp. Illustrations, map, index. $15.95.

Thomas S. Monson. Faith Rewarded: A Personal Account of Prophetic Promises to the East German Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996. ix, 182 pp. Illustrations, index. $14.95.

Pioneer, Ed D. Lauritsen

BYU Studies

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Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life And Times Of Bishop Philip Klingensmith Anna Jean Backus, Lawrence Coates

BYU Studies

Anna Jean Backus. Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1995; Western Frontiersmen Series 25; xxiv; 302 pp. Illustrations, portraits, photos, map, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $32.50.

James H. Hart's Contribution To Our Knowledge Of Oliver Cowdery And David Whitmer, Edward L. Hart

BYU Studies

Most Latter-day Saints take for granted the existence of portraits of the Three Witnesses, but in fact no likeness of Oliver Cowdery was available to the Church until 1883, and then it was touch-and-go whether one would be obtained. Had it not been for the faith and tenacity of James H. Hart, who pursued the portrait when others had failed, we might never have known just what Oliver Cowdery looked like. In the course of following the trail of the portrait, Hart was also able to conduct important interviews with David Whitmer.

End Matter, Byu Studies

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Full Issue, Byu Studies

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Inmates Of Honor: Mormon Cohabs In The Idaho Penitentiary, 1885-1890, Fred E. Woods, Merle W. Wells

Faculty Publications

While stories of Idaho's Mormon polygamists' capture and trial are well known, the prison experiences of these men are not. Since prison overcrowding was a nineteenth-century problem too, they served their sentences in several states. Many kept diaries or journals, and from these personal accounts we can learn a good deal about their life in prison.

Front Matter, Byu Studies

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The Roman Province Of Judea: A Historical Overview, John F. Hall

BYU Studies

Rome's acquisition of Judea and subsequent involvement in the affairs of that long-troubled area came about in largely indirect fashion. For centuries Judea had been under the control of the Hellenistic Greek monarchy centered in Syria and known as the Seleucid empire, one of the successor states to the far greater empire of Alexander the Great, who conquered the vast reaches of the Persian empire toward the end of the fourth century B.C. as thee decaying Seleucid monarchy disintegrated, Rome was compelled to take control of the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean and its hinterland in order to prevent ambitious …

Full Issue, Byu Studies

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Masada: Herod's Fortress And The Zealot's Last Stand, Yigael Yadin

BYU Studies

From 1963 to 1977, before Professor Yigael Yadin entered politics and became Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, he held the most distinguished chair of archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a chair which was established in the name of his father, Professor E. L. Sukenik, who was in his own right a noted archaeologist and linguist and who performed the initial work on three of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Cave 1 at Qumran. An indication of the remarkable abilities of Professor Yadin can be seen in his notable military career. Without receiving any formal military training, …

Index And Illustration Credits, Byu Studies

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