Reviews of old books

[_MCB]

Bennett made a very specific comment about Galland's fraud on the Indian reservation across the river. Very informative. I was frustrated with missing pages, and I doubt that those missing pages are accidental.

Now I am going on to Anderson's History of the Church.

Next after that will be Hickman's autobiography.

[_Dr. Shades]

You've read all those books since the 20th??

Holy cow, you're a fast reader.

[_MCB]

Thank you. Don't have many other responsibilities.

I will be volunteering at the community turkey feed tomorrow, I need to take a break.

[_Wisdom Seeker]

Have any of you read John D. Lee's confession on Google Books?

It was one of my firsts. It is very interesting on how much he loved Joseph Smith and the Church but hated Brigham Young.

[_MCB]

Yeah, it is on my list. I'm going to stop posting what my books are, and just post a list when I get them all done-- if I ever do. There is so much out there. LOL.

Just read Bill Hickman's book. He got away with murder many times as a Brighamite, but his life went downhill quickly once he became a Josephite.

The Stenhouse books are excellent. I am reading Fanny Stnhouse's An Englishwoman in Utah. She worked a lot getting Lee's stuff published.

[_MCB]

Under the Prophet in Utah: the National Menace of a political Priestcraft. by Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins. Outlines the history of the Federal crackdown on polygamy, which the author describes as excessively harsh. Then goes on to explain (1910) the problem of Utahan theocracy, and the threat it poses to the US. A topic dear to my heart. Very good. A Gutenberg book, rather than Google.

The Stenhouse books are somewhat repetitious.

[_MCB]

Cannon's book, written partially in response to the "new polygamy," otherwise describes the many ways that Mormonism is a violation to the American spirit, even today. I HIGHLY recommend it.

[_MCB]

ROFLMAO!!! P. 250 "Life in Utah; or the Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism" by John Hanson Beadle (it really isn't as anti as the title indicates)

The Mormon is often terribly in earnest, but he is seldom funny. This defect is partially one of race, partly in lack of cultivation, but still more in the fact that few people who CAN understand and appreciate an absurdity would ever become Mormons.

There is more, but not as funny as the first statement.

Except that if Sol Spalding wrote the original for the work for mere amusement, then he was very easily amused. LOL.

Author criticizes a people for not being easily amused, and Sol for being easily amused.

[_MCB]

On glossolalia during the Nauvoo era: p. 323-324

An old apostate, who was in the Church at Nauvoo, tells me of having been present at one of those meetings where the first doubts began to arise in his mind in regard to his new faith. Having formerly been a trader among the Choctaws, he suddenly arose and delivered a lengthy speech on hunting in the language of that tribe, which the interpreter rendered into a glowing and florid account of the glories to result from the completion of the Great Temple, then in progress.

[_madeleine]

On glossolalia during the Nauvoo era: p. 323-324

An old apostate, who was in the Church at Nauvoo, tells me of having been present at one of those meetings where the first doubts began to arise in his mind in regard to his new faith. Having formerly been a trader among the Choctaws, he suddenly arose and delivered a lengthy speech on hunting in the language of that tribe, which the interpreter rendered into a glowing and florid account of the glories to result from the completion of the Great Temple, then in progress.

Priceless.