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Brigham's Destroying Angel Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah
William Adams "Wild Bill" Hickman (1815 –1883) was an American frontiersman. He also served as a representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature.
Hickman was baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1839 by John D. Lee. He later served as a personal bodyguard for Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Hickman was reputedly a member of the Danites.
He was an important figure in the Utah War. Hickman torched Fort Bridger and numerous supply trains of the Federal Army.
Hickman, a practicing polygamist, was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 1868. Shortly thereafter, nine of his ten wives left him. According to his autobiography, Hickman's excommunication immediately followed his refusal to commit an assassination at Brigham Young's request.
Around September 1871, while under arrest for the murder of Richard Yates years earlier, Hickman wrote an autobiography in which he confessed to having committed numerous murders. Years later, his autobiography was given to J.H. Beadle, who published it under the sensational title Brigham's Destroying Angel.
Beadle writes:
"For years I had heard of "Bill Hickman, Chief of the Destroying Angels, Head Danite," &c, ad 'nauseam; but like most persons unacquainted with Mormon history, I regarded such matters as the creations of a fertile fancy. When convinced by a longer residence in Utah that there was and had long been some kind of a secret organization dangerous to Gentile and recusant Mormons, I began to examine the history of the Church more carefully.
....
"Our conversation need not be recorded, except to say that the man impressed me with his earnestness, and left me with a much better opinion of him than I had before. I then agreed to take charge of his manuscript, and, to use his own language, "Fix it up in shape, so people would understand it."
Originally published in 1904; reformatted for the Kindle; may contain occasional imperfection; original spellings have been kept in place.
Hickman was baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1839 by John D. Lee. He later served as a personal bodyguard for Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Hickman was reputedly a member of the Danites.
He was an important figure in the Utah War. Hickman torched Fort Bridger and numerous supply trains of the Federal Army.
Hickman, a practicing polygamist, was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 1868. Shortly thereafter, nine of his ten wives left him. According to his autobiography, Hickman's excommunication immediately followed his refusal to commit an assassination at Brigham Young's request.
Around September 1871, while under arrest for the murder of Richard Yates years earlier, Hickman wrote an autobiography in which he confessed to having committed numerous murders. Years later, his autobiography was given to J.H. Beadle, who published it under the sensational title Brigham's Destroying Angel.
Beadle writes:
"For years I had heard of "Bill Hickman, Chief of the Destroying Angels, Head Danite," &c, ad 'nauseam; but like most persons unacquainted with Mormon history, I regarded such matters as the creations of a fertile fancy. When convinced by a longer residence in Utah that there was and had long been some kind of a secret organization dangerous to Gentile and recusant Mormons, I began to examine the history of the Church more carefully.
....
"Our conversation need not be recorded, except to say that the man impressed me with his earnestness, and left me with a much better opinion of him than I had before. I then agreed to take charge of his manuscript, and, to use his own language, "Fix it up in shape, so people would understand it."
Originally published in 1904; reformatted for the Kindle; may contain occasional imperfection; original spellings have been kept in place.
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December 19, 2018
The history you won't learn in church.
Growing up Mormon, as in a lot of religions, some of the less-than-flattering historic moments are given one of a handful of treatments:
1) Spun in a favorable light
2) Glossed over, often with a 'those were the times' excuse
3) Buried, denied, and completely ignored as happening
This book deals with all three, but especially the last. Many of the events William 'Bill' Hickman writes about are ones the Mormon church will never admit happened. Even during Bill's time, church leaders professed either innocence or ignorance of the orders they themselves gave. A handy tactic, if your orders are to kill men for no other reason than you don't like them.
This book shows a different side of Brigham Young than what I learned in Sunday School. A ruthless, power hungry side that only a man such as Bill could portray. And while Bill is far from innocent, the book sheds light of the type of people who can manipulate others into doing horrendous things. All the in the name of religion and their specific god.
At times the reading was dry, and other times hard to follow. However, most of the writing is from Bill's own account, and his own wording, which leads me to be far more forgiving of the writing itself.
I would highly recommend this book to those who are interested in the factual history of the Mormon church, specifically after their proclaimed prophet's, Joseph Smith's, death.
Growing up Mormon, as in a lot of religions, some of the less-than-flattering historic moments are given one of a handful of treatments:
1) Spun in a favorable light
2) Glossed over, often with a 'those were the times' excuse
3) Buried, denied, and completely ignored as happening
This book deals with all three, but especially the last. Many of the events William 'Bill' Hickman writes about are ones the Mormon church will never admit happened. Even during Bill's time, church leaders professed either innocence or ignorance of the orders they themselves gave. A handy tactic, if your orders are to kill men for no other reason than you don't like them.
This book shows a different side of Brigham Young than what I learned in Sunday School. A ruthless, power hungry side that only a man such as Bill could portray. And while Bill is far from innocent, the book sheds light of the type of people who can manipulate others into doing horrendous things. All the in the name of religion and their specific god.
At times the reading was dry, and other times hard to follow. However, most of the writing is from Bill's own account, and his own wording, which leads me to be far more forgiving of the writing itself.
I would highly recommend this book to those who are interested in the factual history of the Mormon church, specifically after their proclaimed prophet's, Joseph Smith's, death.
June 28, 2017
I always knew that the Mormon's were crazy and this just confirmed it. I can't imagine the life Bill lived as a happy one and killing all those people, mostly because he was told to is just insane. I found the book rather hard to fallow and understand at times, but it does shed light on life in the mid 1800's and moving west taking over land from the Native Americans.
July 9, 2017
Enjoyed the book. The main part is a autobiographical memoir written by Bill Hickman published in 1872. This edition was originally published in 1904 and included explanatory notes and supportive information by J. H. Beadle. Hickman's memoir was controversial, portraying Brigham Young as a Godfather like figure, ordering murders for the good of the church or just because the person annoyed him. I read it as I would any other memoir. Hickman was present at key Mormon historical events including Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, the Exodus to Utah, the extermination of the Timpanogos Indians, the Utah War, and the expansion of the Mormon presence throughout the Utah territory. He also served as a representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature. Hickman admits to murdering many men at the request of Brigham Young, writing in an understated style that describes bludgeoning a man to death in a few sentences, then continues on about horse trading, close calls with Indians, mining for gold, exploring the Utah territory or just conversations with normal people. It describes towns and places that no longer exist, but written in a time when they did. This is what I enjoyed most. If there is a fault, it's the overly brief descriptions and a lack of the overview found in history's written after the fact. Beadle offers some background information in the introduction and then presents an analysis and supportive information after Hickman's memoir. Beadle is less than unbiased, having published several anti-Mormon expose type books like " Life In Utah; Or the Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism". I don't know what the original title of Hickmans account was, but the controversial title "Brigham's Avenging Angel" fits the Beadle anti-Mormonism genre. I am sure there are better histories of the Utah Territory, expansion west or Mormonism, but I found this book interesting because it was written close to the time the events occurred.
Warning, the "Amazon Review Request" page pops up after the Hickman account and before the Beadle analysis.
Warning, the "Amazon Review Request" page pops up after the Hickman account and before the Beadle analysis.
November 29, 2022
This book was awesome. It makes me proud to be a member of The Church. We need more men like Brother Hickman and President Young running The Church today. We've gone from having Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson leading The Church, to having Alan Alda and Phil Donahue running things. But I reckon that sometimes we need weak men so that we can appreciate better those great men of the past. I know Brigham Young is a prophet, and yes, so is President Nelson.
January 20, 2021
Fascinating story of my Great Great Grandfather. It clearly had an anti-Mormon slant because of times and the man who encouraged and published it. But it spurred my intense research into the full life and positive contributions Wild Bill made to the Westward movement of the Mormon pioneers and their establishment in Utah Territory. I am writing an epic poem honoring that life.
April 25, 2025
A confession by one of the alleged Danites of Brigham Young’s time. Since he was clearly at odds with Brigham at the time it was written, and he clearly was something of a boastful author, it’s hard to know how seriously to take it. However, it does give a lot of good background history on the settling of Utah.
September 14, 2023
Great Autobiography
I had my doubts about this little book, but I was pleasantly surprised. I couldn't put it down for long. if you like 19th century biographies, especially those that cover mormon history, then you'll like this book too
I had my doubts about this little book, but I was pleasantly surprised. I couldn't put it down for long. if you like 19th century biographies, especially those that cover mormon history, then you'll like this book too
January 27, 2019
interesting!
learn real mormon history. learn what brigham young was up to. learn how people can be lead astray by false prophets.
learn real mormon history. learn what brigham young was up to. learn how people can be lead astray by false prophets.
May 17, 2025
BOOK REVIEW - Brigham's Destroying Angel (1872), by William Hickman
Sometime ago a stumbled upon a trilogy of Brigham's Destroying Angel (1872), Wife No. 19, and the Confessions of John D. Lee. All considered classics in late 19th century anti-Mormon writing. This is the last of the 3 I’ve read. Confessions proports s to be a confessional memoir exposing the secret crimes of early Mormon leadership, with Hickman casting himself as a central figure in a campaign of religiously motivated violence under the direction of Brigham Young. But far from being a reliable historical document, this book is an example of the salacious anti-Mormon exposé genre that proliferated in the late 19th century. Heavily edited, and likely ghostwritten, by ex-Mormon Edward W. Tullidge, this book purports scandal, exaggeration, and fantasy, not fact.
Like Wife No. 19 and Confessions, Hickman’s account fed on Eastern audiences’ anxieties about Mormon polygamy, frontier justice, and ecclesiastical power. But what it offers in lurid drama, it sorely lacks historical reliability.
Five Major Historical Inaccuracies – I reference below modern works by respected scholars that dispel the myths of Hickman
1. The Myth of a Danite Secret Police in Utah - Hickman claims to have led a secret army of Danites acting on Brigham Young’s orders to enforce religious orthodoxy through murder. However, as historian D. Michael Quinn explains in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (1994), the original Danite band was a short-lived and irregular militia that emerged in Missouri in 1838 and quickly dissolved. Quinn and others, including Leonard J. Arrington in Brigham Young: American Moses (1985), note that there is no credible evidence that an organized Danite force existed in Utah Territory.
2. Exaggerated Role in Church Sanctioned Violence - Hickman inflates his own importance by claiming to be Brigham Young’s personal “destroying angel.” Yet contemporary church records and legal proceedings, including those examined by historian Richard L. Bushman in Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005), show that Hickman was largely viewed as a criminal liability rather than an agent of the church. The LDS Church publicly disavowed him, and Hickman himself admitted in later court testimony that he had acted independently in several violent acts.
3. Fabricated Brigham Young Assassination Orders - Among the book’s most quoted and discredited passages is Hickman’s assertion:
“Brigham Young told me to go and kill Richard Yates, and said it was the will of the Lord, and I must do it, and that he would be held responsible before God if I failed.”
This claim has been directly challenged by historians such as Will Bagley in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2002), who emphasizes the complete lack of corroborating evidence for such an incident or for the existence of Richard Yates as a victim. Bagley and others note that Hickman provided no verifiable sources or dates for these supposed orders, and no documentation in Young’s voluminous records supports such directives.
4. The Depiction of Utah as a Theocratic Killing Field - Hickman’s depiction of Brigham Young’s Utah as a place where dissenters were regularly assassinated by church enforcers has long been refuted. Historian Klaus J. Hansen, in Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History (1967), argues that while there were theocratic aspirations, the actual political situation in Utah was complex and constrained by federal oversight. The idea of Brigham Young ordering extrajudicial killings as routine policy is not borne out by contemporary records or court proceedings.
5. Literary Embellishments and Invention - Hickman’s book is filled with suspiciously polished dialogues and dramatic recollections that reflect the style of 19th-century sensationalist literature rather than the rough, firsthand memoir of a frontier enforcer. W. Tullidge’s heavy editorial hand is evident, and scholars such as Ronald W. Walker have highlighted this in their analyses of Mormon vigilante narratives (see Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 2008, co-authored with Richard E. Turley Jr. and Glen M. Leonard). The theatrical style and moralizing tone undercut the book’s claim to authenticity.
Brigham’s Destroying Angel is best understood not as a reliable memoir but as a product of its time, anti-Mormon propaganda shaped by market forces, religious prejudice, and editorial manipulation. While it remains a fascinating document for understanding 19th-century perceptions of Mormonism, its many falsehoods and historical distortions have been thoroughly discredited by modern scholarship. Serious students of Western or Latter-day Saint history should look elsewhere for factual accounts of this complex and often misunderstood period.
Sometime ago a stumbled upon a trilogy of Brigham's Destroying Angel (1872), Wife No. 19, and the Confessions of John D. Lee. All considered classics in late 19th century anti-Mormon writing. This is the last of the 3 I’ve read. Confessions proports s to be a confessional memoir exposing the secret crimes of early Mormon leadership, with Hickman casting himself as a central figure in a campaign of religiously motivated violence under the direction of Brigham Young. But far from being a reliable historical document, this book is an example of the salacious anti-Mormon exposé genre that proliferated in the late 19th century. Heavily edited, and likely ghostwritten, by ex-Mormon Edward W. Tullidge, this book purports scandal, exaggeration, and fantasy, not fact.
Like Wife No. 19 and Confessions, Hickman’s account fed on Eastern audiences’ anxieties about Mormon polygamy, frontier justice, and ecclesiastical power. But what it offers in lurid drama, it sorely lacks historical reliability.
Five Major Historical Inaccuracies – I reference below modern works by respected scholars that dispel the myths of Hickman
1. The Myth of a Danite Secret Police in Utah - Hickman claims to have led a secret army of Danites acting on Brigham Young’s orders to enforce religious orthodoxy through murder. However, as historian D. Michael Quinn explains in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (1994), the original Danite band was a short-lived and irregular militia that emerged in Missouri in 1838 and quickly dissolved. Quinn and others, including Leonard J. Arrington in Brigham Young: American Moses (1985), note that there is no credible evidence that an organized Danite force existed in Utah Territory.
2. Exaggerated Role in Church Sanctioned Violence - Hickman inflates his own importance by claiming to be Brigham Young’s personal “destroying angel.” Yet contemporary church records and legal proceedings, including those examined by historian Richard L. Bushman in Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005), show that Hickman was largely viewed as a criminal liability rather than an agent of the church. The LDS Church publicly disavowed him, and Hickman himself admitted in later court testimony that he had acted independently in several violent acts.
3. Fabricated Brigham Young Assassination Orders - Among the book’s most quoted and discredited passages is Hickman’s assertion:
“Brigham Young told me to go and kill Richard Yates, and said it was the will of the Lord, and I must do it, and that he would be held responsible before God if I failed.”
This claim has been directly challenged by historians such as Will Bagley in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2002), who emphasizes the complete lack of corroborating evidence for such an incident or for the existence of Richard Yates as a victim. Bagley and others note that Hickman provided no verifiable sources or dates for these supposed orders, and no documentation in Young’s voluminous records supports such directives.
4. The Depiction of Utah as a Theocratic Killing Field - Hickman’s depiction of Brigham Young’s Utah as a place where dissenters were regularly assassinated by church enforcers has long been refuted. Historian Klaus J. Hansen, in Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History (1967), argues that while there were theocratic aspirations, the actual political situation in Utah was complex and constrained by federal oversight. The idea of Brigham Young ordering extrajudicial killings as routine policy is not borne out by contemporary records or court proceedings.
5. Literary Embellishments and Invention - Hickman’s book is filled with suspiciously polished dialogues and dramatic recollections that reflect the style of 19th-century sensationalist literature rather than the rough, firsthand memoir of a frontier enforcer. W. Tullidge’s heavy editorial hand is evident, and scholars such as Ronald W. Walker have highlighted this in their analyses of Mormon vigilante narratives (see Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 2008, co-authored with Richard E. Turley Jr. and Glen M. Leonard). The theatrical style and moralizing tone undercut the book’s claim to authenticity.
Brigham’s Destroying Angel is best understood not as a reliable memoir but as a product of its time, anti-Mormon propaganda shaped by market forces, religious prejudice, and editorial manipulation. While it remains a fascinating document for understanding 19th-century perceptions of Mormonism, its many falsehoods and historical distortions have been thoroughly discredited by modern scholarship. Serious students of Western or Latter-day Saint history should look elsewhere for factual accounts of this complex and often misunderstood period.
August 14, 2025
THE STORY (TRUE OR FALSE) OF ONE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG'S "DESTROYING ANGELS"
William Adams ("Wild Bill") Hickman (1815-1883) was a frontiersman who later served as a personal bodyguard for Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young, and was probably a member of the "Danites" organization. (LDS scholars such as Hugh Nibley strongly dispute the accuracy of Hickman's writings.) This edition of this 1904 book was reprinted by Utah Lighthouse Ministry, run by Jerald and Sandra Tanner (authors of 'Mormonism - Shadow or Reality?').
Here are some quotations from the book:
"I was in the city a few days after, and, as in duty bound, made report to Brigham Young, who held the right of life-taking in his own hands, and nobody else, as we had often been told." (Pg. 94)
"I was at Brigham Young's office one day, and ... had a talk, in which Drown's name was mentioned. Young said he was a 'bad man, and should be used up,' and instructed me to do it, and put a stop to his carrying news and horse-stealing." (Pg.133-134)
"The Governor ... then asked me if I was not afraid of Brigham Young, knowing it was in opposition to his counsel to have any Mormon sign (a petition). I told him no; that 'Brigham Young was as afraid of me as I was of him,' meaning that we were not afraid of each other." (Pg. 163)
"I would have done this (stay in the territory) for the sake of seeing my children raised; but seeing there was no truth or honor in Brigham Young, and his promise amounted to nothing, there was but one show left for me, and that was to get away quick, and not be overtaken." (Pg. 176)
"But let me here say that this is all Brigham Young's doctrine; I never heard of any such thing until I had been here several years. Those doctrines of shedding a man's blood to save him, Adam being God, and several other abominable things of like character, have originated solely from Brigham..." (Pg. 177)
"I was innocent of crime, only the obeying of Brigham Young's orders, and would sometimes say, O my God, may the day come when his unjust reign shall have an end!" (Pg. 180)
"I might go into the details of family affairs---of women in polygamy, property appropriations, thievings, and when, how, and by whom ordered, and the consequences when not ordered, and many other atrocious deeds of murder done by the order of Brigham Young, which I was not witness to---all of which would make a larger book than this." (Pg. 196)
This book will mostly appeal to critics of the LDS Church.
William Adams ("Wild Bill") Hickman (1815-1883) was a frontiersman who later served as a personal bodyguard for Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young, and was probably a member of the "Danites" organization. (LDS scholars such as Hugh Nibley strongly dispute the accuracy of Hickman's writings.) This edition of this 1904 book was reprinted by Utah Lighthouse Ministry, run by Jerald and Sandra Tanner (authors of 'Mormonism - Shadow or Reality?').
Here are some quotations from the book:
"I was in the city a few days after, and, as in duty bound, made report to Brigham Young, who held the right of life-taking in his own hands, and nobody else, as we had often been told." (Pg. 94)
"I was at Brigham Young's office one day, and ... had a talk, in which Drown's name was mentioned. Young said he was a 'bad man, and should be used up,' and instructed me to do it, and put a stop to his carrying news and horse-stealing." (Pg.133-134)
"The Governor ... then asked me if I was not afraid of Brigham Young, knowing it was in opposition to his counsel to have any Mormon sign (a petition). I told him no; that 'Brigham Young was as afraid of me as I was of him,' meaning that we were not afraid of each other." (Pg. 163)
"I would have done this (stay in the territory) for the sake of seeing my children raised; but seeing there was no truth or honor in Brigham Young, and his promise amounted to nothing, there was but one show left for me, and that was to get away quick, and not be overtaken." (Pg. 176)
"But let me here say that this is all Brigham Young's doctrine; I never heard of any such thing until I had been here several years. Those doctrines of shedding a man's blood to save him, Adam being God, and several other abominable things of like character, have originated solely from Brigham..." (Pg. 177)
"I was innocent of crime, only the obeying of Brigham Young's orders, and would sometimes say, O my God, may the day come when his unjust reign shall have an end!" (Pg. 180)
"I might go into the details of family affairs---of women in polygamy, property appropriations, thievings, and when, how, and by whom ordered, and the consequences when not ordered, and many other atrocious deeds of murder done by the order of Brigham Young, which I was not witness to---all of which would make a larger book than this." (Pg. 196)
This book will mostly appeal to critics of the LDS Church.
August 18, 2021
Interesting narrative
I found the book very interesting and not a subject that any of the Mormons I know wish to discuss,they always get very angry
I found the book very interesting and not a subject that any of the Mormons I know wish to discuss,they always get very angry
July 21, 2022
This recollection by Bill Hickman, Brigham Young's favorite murderer, scares the hell out of me. Hickman, captain of the Danites, relates numerous murders ordered by Young- Young's euphemism fir murder was to "use up" the victim. Many Mormons claim the Danites were a rogue group in Missouri but not Utah. Hickman's confessional disproves that. And although Hickman did Young's bidding for years, he laughed at Young's claim of bring a "prophet of the Lord.". Hickman's portrayal of Brigham Young reveals a cold-hearted authoritarian who brooked no criticism, a manipulator and liar and greedy as a get out to boot. And who did Young condemn? Thieves, murderers? No, apostates and anyone who criticized him, conveniently taking everything the murdered owned into the church. Is it all factual? Well, a bunch of people died (including scores of Native Americans) and Hickman confessed, so I believe most of it, enough to wonder if Brigham Young University should change its school colors to just scarlet. But what scares me is that it shows the unmitigated disaster of a theocracy.
August 10, 2025
1872 purple prose. Not a serious history, or even a reliable “pop” history. A self-promoting historical axe-grinder utilizing outdated (and often disproven or self-serving sources) without properly weighing those sources (or at least explaining who his sources were or the reasons why they may or may not be reliable).
Note: As a believing member of the LDS Church I understand that our founding generation were imperfect men of their times who were sometimes overzealous in defense of their persecuted flock. As such I think it entirely possible that there were some semi-organized self defense groups. And even that some leaders were a part of them. But this book is not a reliable way of looking into these questions.
Note: As a believing member of the LDS Church I understand that our founding generation were imperfect men of their times who were sometimes overzealous in defense of their persecuted flock. As such I think it entirely possible that there were some semi-organized self defense groups. And even that some leaders were a part of them. But this book is not a reliable way of looking into these questions.
November 20, 2020
Being a history buff, and recently having visited Utah, found this book and was happy to read it. I don't know how much of this "disclosure" is fact or bluster, but I did learn of quite a few events that were able to be checked, for example, the Meadow Murders. It was amazing to me how far these early settlers would travel to make money, how willing they were to follow the church leaders, the brutality of the times - all well conveyed in this book. Their lifestyles are interesting to read, and their hardships are easy to relate to, but the perseverance of the early settlers is to be honored.
January 12, 2009
Although much of it was written as a confession and witness against Brigham Young and other Church leaders, it's a very sad tale of a man who gave all to his beliefs and lost everything for it. There were many attempts to discredit this book after it's publication and especially after Hickman's death. Had Hickman not apostatized he would have taken the spotlight from the infamous Orrin Porter Rockwell.
July 29, 2008
This firsthand account gies people a glimpse of the wild west and the straglehold that Brigham Young had on the utah territory. Both shocking and intriguing, this book gives insight into the darker psychology of early Mormon life.
February 28, 2020
A personal memoir of an interesting Utah figure
I had known all my life about Brigham Young's murdering "Angel" Porter Rockwell butt hadn't heard much about Hickman or what actually happened between the U.S. Government and Mormon leaders very insightful book and fun too read
I had known all my life about Brigham Young's murdering "Angel" Porter Rockwell butt hadn't heard much about Hickman or what actually happened between the U.S. Government and Mormon leaders very insightful book and fun too read
May 21, 2010
This gives some good history of an obscure time period in Utah's history, but one should also read the Confessions of John D Lee which gives out more details.
March 11, 2013
Read it free online here
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September 4, 2014
Fascinating. Makes one wonder how reliable this account actually is, though...
December 6, 2017
An autobiographical account of the life of William Adams Hickman. I found it interesting.
February 2, 2022
Mormonism 1800s
A history, more on biography of the author in the 1800s in correspondence with state and mormonism. Its quite Chaotic in that time, and many corruption occurred.
A history, more on biography of the author in the 1800s in correspondence with state and mormonism. Its quite Chaotic in that time, and many corruption occurred.
September 30, 2022
Boring and fascinating at the same time. I can’t explain it.
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