Brigham Young’s not on record as saying, “I’m worried that Joseph’s going to ask for my wife as an Abrahamic sacrifice.” It’s not very subtle, though. No, I don’t think it’s subtle.

McAuley was also among those who set fire to the Nauvoo Temple in 1848. J.B. Backenstos, then sheriff of Hancock County, Illinois, who was not a Latter-day Saint, described McAuley as “one of ...

Brigham Young, Utah The story of Brigham Young picks up where Joseph Smith’s left off. Like Smith, Young was born in rural Vermont (the southern Vermont town of Whitingham).

Matthew Bowman: Why more and more Mormon types are denying Joseph Smith practiced polygamy Most historians say the evidence shows he did, but others pin it primarily on Brigham Young.

That will change in the coming years as The Brigham Young Center produces the Brigham Young Papers, beginning with “ The Brigham Young Journals, Vol. 1, April 1832 to Feb. 1846.” While it appears to ...

The original layout of the temple’s interior – the one designed by Angell and approved by President young in the mid 1850s – was patterned after the Nauvoo Temple, containing two massive ...

But Mormons came to love more than just Smith’s eyes. Eighteen months after his martyrdom, the founding prophet’s portrait was found in the Nauvoo Temple’s Celestial Room, a reminder to ...

Brigham Young’s management of the trek west and establishment of hundreds of successful colonies in the heart of the continent rested on a foundation of faith in the restoration of the gospel of Jesus ...

The podcast, which will also be translated into Spanish and Portuguese, shows how the construction of the Nauvoo Temple and the restoration of temple ordinances was an essential step in the ...

A Day Away: History preserved in Nauvoo, Ill. Gleaming temple rises above 19th century Mormon settlement along Mississippi River Diana Nollen Sep. 9, 2021 6:05 am, Updated: Sep. 12, 2021 11:11 am ...