Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West cover:paperback

Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West cover:paperbackby Melvin C. Johnson 2020 Best Biography Award, John Whitmer Historical Association An essential read for those interested in studying the competing strands of the Mormon Restoration movement in mid nineteenth century frontier America. Richard E. Bennett A marvelous record of an LDS everyman meandering through the Mormon West. . . . Fascinating and superbly researched. Todd M. Compton Through the biography of one man, Johnson introduces us to five

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the author takes care to depict the standard Mormon villain—an aging patriarch trying to force a beautiful young maiden to marry him—as a member of a breakaway group of Mormons who are defying the Church

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