Peering Inside...

If you are a true-blue Brigham Young fan, how far would you go to prove it? Would you make a 6,000-mile journey on a steamer to Panama, catch another steamer to San Francisco, and then a third one to San Pedro, California only to learn you’d have to make the overland...

After Brigham Young and the other Church leaders learned that President James Buchanan had indeed dispatched about one-third of the U.S. to march on Zion, Brigham put on his territorial governor’s hat. President Polk gave him that title and authority in 1850 and as of...

From the time of its inception, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often called “Mormons” by their enemies and detractors, were plagued by persecution. From New York to Ohio, from Missouri to Illinois, they were chased, hunted and driven out until…..

After learning that troops, cannon, cattle and mules and supplies of all kinds were headed to Utah to put the Latter-day Saints under the Federal boot, Brigham Young and the Saints had had enough. It was either fight or flee, or maybe even a bit of both. One thing was...

Imagine the feelings that Mormon settlers in Utah had once they learned that an army was marching on them, especially if they had experienced the persecutions in Illinois, Missouri and Ohio. Now the Mormons were almost all alone,...