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I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail
Susan Arrington Madsen
Shadow Mountain, 1994
the best
after you mormon history fans read this, read growing up in zion. they were both truly the best books i have ever read
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A Guide to Southern Utah's Hole-in-the-Rock Trail
Stewart Aitchison
University of Utah Press, 2005
rock and roll
The iconography of the American West is full of discrepancies: the myth-making machinery of 19th century dime novels and 20th century Hollywood movies elevated some people and events into legends and totally ignored better stories. Even today, when revisionist ...
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The Refiner's Fire, Historical Highlights of Missouri
Alvin R. Dyer
Deseret Book Company, 1960
What became of the Temple land in Missouri? Is the old Liberty Jail still in existence? Where is Oliver Cowdery buried? These questions and many more are answered in this book. Missouri is often called the "center place" of Zion and Latter-Day Saint history there deserves study by all Mormon scholars.An excellenr book on the subject.
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
Wallace Stegner
Bison Books, 1992
Engaging History of the Mormon Trek West
Being raised Mormon I have been exposed my entire life to the mythical stories of the pioneers. I knew the names and places in the book for the most part, but Stegner brought the people to life. Just because the pioneers had normal human foibles doesn't make their ...
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Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail
Jana Richman
Three Rivers Press, 2006
the third eye
This is a beautifully written book. In lucid and often lyrical prose the author describes her journey along the Mormon trail by motorcycle, following the route from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City taken by several of her female ancestors and, on the way, recounts ...
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Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail
William W. Slaughter, Michael Landon
Shadow Mountain, 1997
A seemingly objective history of a nation-shaping exodus
In the early-1800s, the Mormon Church--or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it's formally called--was founded when a young man named Joseph Smith, not even twenty years old, produced a book he said had been translated with divine help from an ancient ...
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American Auto Trail-Kansas' U.S. Highway 50 (American Auto Trails)
Caddo Publications USA, 2008
This installment in the American Auto Trails series follows U.S. Highway 50 across the breadth of Kansas, from Kansas City to the Colorado State Line. This is the territory of the homesteaders and jayhawks, the cattle baron and the railroads. Drive through the extensive history of the central plains.
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The Mormon Trail and the Latter-Day Saints in American History (In American History)
Carol Rust Nash
Enslow Publishers, 1999
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Historic Sites and Markers along the Mormon and Other Great Western Trails
Stanley B. Kimball
University of Illinois Press, 1988
Excellent guide to sites along the western trails
This excellent guide book identifies most of the historic markers located on a handful of western trails (though a few are as far east as Ohio) that a modern traveler today could stop and look at. There are 25 trails or trail segments listed: 9 of them deal with the ...
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The Mormon Trail Revisited
Gregory M. Franzwa, 2007
Foreward by Ronald O. Barney
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Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail
Carol Cornwall Madsen
Deseret Book, 1997
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Pioneer Camp Of The Saints: The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
Utah State University Press, 2001
The journals are great, but Bagley's commentary is not
These are the journals of Thomas Bullock: the man commissioned by Brigham Young to write about the first ("Pioneer") company of Mormons to make the trek into Utah. They are written in typical 19th century style--full of details and odd anecdotes and more ...
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Mormon Pioneer Trail, The
Stanley Kimball
Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1997
THE MORMON PIONEER TRAIL guide is provided for modern-day travelers who are making their own rediscovery of the Mormon Pioneer Trail and the wagon trains and handcart companies that journeyed along that trail. The guide is dedicated to the thousands who followed the pioneer trail west into the Valley of the Great Salt Lake and their Zion in the ...
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Wend Your Way: A Guide to Sites Along the Iowa Mormon Trail
L. Matthew Chatterley
Iowa State Press, 2000
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Mormon Trail: Voyage of Discovery:The Story Behind the Scenery
Stanley B. and Violet T.Kimball, Mary L. Van Camp
KC Publications, Inc., 1995
Great Photo Journey
Great photography with supplemental text that illustrates the scenery along the trail taken by the Mormon Pioneers. Just enough text to explain each photo without being laborious or dull. The entire Story Behind the Scenery series are wonderful books that make great ...
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