Both sides of the current debate over the date of the First Vision have tried to establish the time when members of the Smith family joined the Presbyterian church in Palmyra. The primary source […]
[…] sit beneath a mesquite tree in a dry creek bed and look long at cactus. The saguaro does not sway or bend or mark the breeze. It has no use. It […]
This small publication makes available in useable form the printing of two documents which deal with the first Masonic Lodge organized at Nauvoo and the rapidity with which it grew. At Nauvoo in 1841 […]
[…] year you questioned my going on to graduate school; last night you wanted me to return for more schooling in Utah: is it that you’d rather have me in school there than struggling out here?
[…] Taylor hadn’t really been cut off at all (it was an empty form to appease the outside world). If this actually was the situation, Raymond felt it was high time for our father’s name […]
Let us begin by accentuating the positive, even if it proves impossible to eliminate the negative in discussing William Roper’s and Leonard Arrington’s biographical study of William Spry, Utah’s Governor during the period from […]
[…] unfinished. The volume shows signs of haste: factual and interpretive errors, clumsy writing, poor conceptualization, inadequate re search. What might have been an important contribution is often no more than a rehash of well […]
The darkness said tyranny! And poured inward, defining The breeding swirl of chaos For the scarabaeidae of time. The absence of light became My prayer of darkness, skeining And reining: I am […]
[…] mind from mind to eye interminably. All is not nothing but pieces, pieces and process, a wave breaking into many waves and breaking again at my feet. All going, all gone, all lost, what […]
The common cripple to the south of Palmyra Dreamed God the Father, the Savior Son, And, though clerical tradition predetermine his doom, Can never, never, never Search Kidd’s treasure again.