Beginning with the 1846 and 1847 arrivals of the Brooklyn Saints and the veterans of the famed Mormon Battalion, California’s LDS pioneers became centrally involved in events that had great significance not only to Mormonism but also to the broad course of regional and national growth. In this presentation, based on his recently published narrative …
Speaker: Edward Leo Lyman
THE SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH OF THE CHURCH IN THE 1850’S: INSIGHTS FROM THE CAROLINE BARNES CROSBY DIARY
Caroline Crosby was one of the most detailed chroniclers of events related to the Mormons in California from the time of her passing through on her way to a mission in the Society Islands in 1850 until her family moved back to Utah at the end of 1857. For a year and a half, from …
GOLD RUSH SAINTS: THE CONTEST BETWEEN BABYLON AND ZION IN CALIFORNIA’S NEW EL DORADO
Beginning with the 1846 and 1847 arrivals of the Brooklyn Saints and the veterans of the famed Mormon Battalion, California’s LDS pioneers became centrally involved in events that had great significance not only to Mormonism but also to the broad course of regional and national growth. In this presentation, based on his recently published narrative …
THE SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH OF THE CHURCH IN THE 1850’S: INSIGHTS FROM THE CAROLINE BARNES CROSBY DIARY
Caroline Crosby was one of the most detailed chroniclers of events related to the Mormons in California from the time of her passing through on her way to a mission in the Society Islands in 1850 until her family moved back to Utah at the end of 1857. For a year and a half, from …
THE OVERLAND JOURNEY FROM UTAH TO CALIFORNIA: WAGON TRAVEL FROM THE CITY OF SAINTS TO THE CITY OF ANGELS
This paper surveys the Latter-day Saint use of the historic trail often called the Mormon trail to Southern California. In 1848, the Mormon Battalion was the first ever to akte wagons over the route. In 1851, the largest emigrant company ever, 437 people, traveled the trail to found San Bernardino, with many others following later. …
THE JOURNAL OF CAROLINE BARNES CROSBY
Caroline Barnes Crosby’s journal ranks as one of the most descriptive and fascinating accounts of everyday Mormon life from Kirtland and Nauvoo to Salt Lake City in the 1830s and ‘40s. And it is by far the most detailed coverage of the Church in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1850s, including her interactions …
J. Golden Kimball and the Financial Panic of 1893
J. Golden Kimball and the Financial Panic of 1893 This paper examines in some detail the far-reaching impact of the Panic of 1893, both on the Church and the personal resources of one of its most prominent leaders, J. Golden Kimball. I will present this material in two sections. The first examines how the Panic …
The Financial Exhaustion of Wilford Woodruff: An Explanation of Why the Church Divested itself of Promoting Southern Nevada Gold Mining and Milling Properties in the 1890’s
The Financial Exhaustion of Wilford Woodruff: An Explanation of Why the Church Divested itself of Promoting Southern Nevada Gold Mining and Milling Properties in the 1890’s The 1890 Manifesto had removed the main cause of the Church’s conflict with the federal government–polygamy. But it couldn’t erase the Church’s 300,000 debt and its toll on President …
Violence on the Mormon Frontier: Fact or Fiction?
Violence on the Mormon Frontier: Fact or Fiction? Elder Bruce R. McConkie insisted: ‘There is not one historical instance of so-called blood atonement in this dispensation,” yet recent researchers have concluded that Brigham Young’s support of “holy murder” helped create a “culture of violence” that promoted crimes ranging from individual murders to massacres. The Encyclopedia …
George Q. Cannon: Controversial Economic Innovator during the Depression of the 1890s
George Q. Cannon: Controversial Economic Innovator during the Depression of the 1890s Amid the worst economic depression yet in American history, George Q. Cannon, with President Wilford Woodruff’s full approval, formulated a daring scheme to retain control of economic resources and business opportunities. This utilized deficit financing and bond sales in the east. Ultimately, much …