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Sleeping Out At The Farm, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies

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A Shepherd To Mexico's Saints: Arwell L. Pierce And The Third Convention, F. Lamond Tullis

BYU Studies

National pride, local suspicion, and perceptions of insensitivity were overcome as a group of Mexican Saints were lovingly returned to the fold.

Popular And Literary Mormon Novels: Can Weyland And Whipple Dance Together In The House Of Fiction?, John Bennion

BYU Studies

The two major streams in Mormon fiction seem to be radically at odds with each other, but an occasional dance together might lessen divisiveness.

Prisoners Of War: Minutes Of Meetings Of Latter-Day Saint Servicemen Held In Stalag Luft 1, Barth, Germany, Colleen Whitley

BYU Studies

In spite of hardships and shortages, LDS prisoners of war faithfully held Church meetings and kept records of their religious activities.

Worth Their Salt: Notable But Often Unnoted Women Of Utah Colleen Whitley, Cherry B. Silver

BYU Studies

Colleen Whitley, ed. Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah. Logan: Utah State University, 1996. xi; 308 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography. Paperback, $19.95.

Rain Forest, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies

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Another Marvelous Thing, Tessa Meyer Santiago

BYU Studies

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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.

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

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

BYU Studies

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Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

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

BYU Studies

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

BYU Studies

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Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Front Matter, Byu Studies

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 …