Life And Death On The Mormon Frontier

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Life And Death On The Mormon Frontier

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Author : Stephen C. LeSueur
language : en
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Release Date : 2023-06-06

Life And Death On The Mormon Frontier written by Stephen C. LeSueur and has been published by Greg Kofford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with Religion categories.

This thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West’s most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona’s White Mountains. On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons joined a sheriff’s posse to track and arrest five suspected outlaws. The next day, LeSueur and Gibbons, who had become separated from other posse members, were found brutally murdered. The outlaws belonged to Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang. Frank LeSueur was the great uncle of the book’s author, Stephen C. LeSueur. In writing about the Wild Bunch, historians have played up the outlaws’ daring heists and violent confrontations. Their victims serve primarily as extras in the gang’s stories, bit players and forgotten names whose lives merit little attention. Drawing upon journals, reminiscences, newspaper articles, and other source materials, LeSueur examines this episode from the victims’ perspective. Popular culture often portrays outlaws as misunderstood and even honorable men—Robin Hood figures—but as this history makes clear, they were stone-cold killers who preferred ambush over direct confrontation. They had no qualms about shooting people in the back. The LeSueur and Gibbons families that settled St. Johns, Arizona, served as part of a colonizing vanguard for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, popularly known as Mormons. They contended with hostile neighbors, an unforgiving environment, and outlaw bands that took advantage of the large mountain expanses to hide and escape justice. Deprivation and death were no strangers to the St. Johns colonizers, but the LeSueur-Gibbons murders shook the entire community, the act being so vicious and unnecessary, the young men so full of promise. By focusing the historian’s lens on this incident and its aftermath, this exciting Western history offers fresh insights into the Wild Bunch gang, while also shedding new light on the Mormon colonizing experience in a gripping tale of life and death on the Arizona frontier. Praise for Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier: "Stephen LeSueur takes the reader on a ride into the dark, murderous world of the Wild Bunch in the Mormon settlements of the Utah-Arizona frontier. A compelling, deeply researched, and well-written study that will grab the attention of Old West historians." — Daniel Buck, co-author of The End of the Road: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Bolivia "Stephen LeSueur unearths the circumstances that led a gang of outlaws to kill Frank LeSueur (the author’s great-uncle) and Gus Gibbons near St. Johns, Arizona, in 1900. LeSueur punctures popular myths about the Wild Bunch, but the true history of poverty, faithfulness, criminality, and family is more compelling and just as wild. It's a hard book to put down." — John G. Turner, author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet "Unlike romanticized versions of Western bandits, Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier portrays a grittier, authentic Old West in a manner that draws the reader into another era. As a descendant of one of the many victims of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, LeSueur thoroughly and compellingly recounts the murder and its devastating effect on the family—something often overlooked. In the current climate of winking at contemporary scofflaws, it is good to be reminded that character still counts—and that its opposite still destroys.” — Gregory A. Prince, author of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism and Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History

Missouri Mormon Burials

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Author : Janet Lisonbee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-01

Missouri Mormon Burials written by Janet Lisonbee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Cemeteries categories.

Desert Saints

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Author : Nels Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1966

Desert Saints written by Nels Anderson and has been published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Religion categories.

Mormonism In Transition

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Author : Thomas G. Alexander
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1996

Mormonism In Transition written by Thomas G. Alexander and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.

Fire And Sword

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Author : Leland H. Gentry
language : en
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Release Date : 2009-10-01

Fire And Sword written by Leland H. Gentry and has been published by Greg Kofford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Religion categories.

Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares. The Missouri period--especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over vigorous, personal direction of this new Zion until the spring of 1839 when he escaped after five months of imprisonment--represents a moment of intense crisis in Mormon history. Representing the greatest extremes of devotion and violence, commitment and intolerance, physical suffering and terror--mobbings, battles, massacres, and political “knockdowns”--it shadowed the Mormon psyche for a century. Leland Gentry was the first to step beyond this disturbing period as a one-sided symbol of religious persecution and move toward understanding it with careful documentation and evenhanded analysis. In Fire and Sword, Todd Compton collaborates with Gentry to update this foundational work with four decades of new scholarship, more insightful critical theory, and the wealth of resources that have become electronically available in the last few years. Compton gives full credit to Leland Gentry's extraordinary achievement, particularly in documenting the existence of Danites and in attempting to tell the Missourians’ side of the story; but he also goes far beyond it, gracefully drawing into the dialogue signal interpretations written since Gentry and introducing the raw urgency of personal writings, eyewitness journalists, and bemused politicians seesawing between human compassion and partisan harshness. In the lush Missouri landscape of the Mormon imagination where Adam and Eve had walked out of the garden and where Adam would return to preside over his posterity, the towering religious creativity of Joseph Smith and clash of religious stereotypes created a swift and traumatic frontier drama that changed the Church.

Tell It All

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Author : Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

Tell It All written by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Mormon Church categories.

Life And Death On The Upper Missouri

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Author : Johnny Healy
language : en
Publisher: Life and Death on the Upper Missouri: The Frontier
Release Date : 2013-04-11

Life And Death On The Upper Missouri written by Johnny Healy and has been published by Life and Death on the Upper Missouri: The Frontier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.

A compilation of sketches written by John J. Healy for the Benton Record, a newspaper in Fort Benton, Montana. The sketches began appearing in the newspaper in January 1878.

Sunbonnet Sisters

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Author : Leonard J. Arrington
language : en
Publisher: Bookcraft, Incorporated
Release Date : 1984

Sunbonnet Sisters written by Leonard J. Arrington and has been published by Bookcraft, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A Ram In The Thicket

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Author : Frank Chester Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

A Ram In The Thicket written by Frank Chester Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A hard-edged biography about the rigors of pioneering life in northern and southern Idaho in the 1890s and early 1900s.

Life In Utah Or The Mysteries And Crimes Of Mormonism

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Author : John Hanson Beadle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

Life In Utah Or The Mysteries And Crimes Of Mormonism written by John Hanson Beadle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Americana categories.

The author offers a hostile treatise on the history, practices, and customs of the Mormon Church during the 19th century.