After fourteen years of “pains taking historical detective work on the Gunnison Massacre” (see dust jacket), Robert Kent Fielding has concluded that the history of the Mormons between 1847 and 1859 has not been dealt…
Dialogue 27.3 (1994): 289–298
Over time Joseph Smith changed his stance on freemasonary, which led to him being included as part of the group. Some of the common aspects of freemasonry introduced into the endowment ceremony.
I remember the great bear
circling the blue night,
the black juniper and no motion.
crossed out—an inexact word in typescript
but not erased
left unused—an unread book
but not unneeded
can hold eight eggs
when she walks from the
refrigerator to the stove,
bacon fat popping out
Even now in the stony
courtyard under withered
vines the characters
Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247
Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
Home from the dance in a howling blizzard.
The kitchen door blown open.
A heap of snow swirled onto linoleum.
I’m entranced at the violence,
