FIFTEEN YEARS AMONG THE MORMONS: BEING THE NARRATIVE OF MRS. MARY ETTIE V. SMITH, LATE OF GREAT SALT LAKE CITY: A SISTER OF ONE OF THE MORMON HIGH PRIESTS, SHE HAVING BEEN PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH MOST OF THE MORMON LEADERS, AND LONG IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THE "PROPHET" BRIGHAM YOUNG

Green, Nelson Winch

Edité par Charles Scribner, New York, 1858

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12mo. Brown stamped cloth. Initials "C.S." blind-embossed to both boards Wear to boards, extremities, and gilt spine title faded. Front hinge started and a bit loosey-goosey, but holding fine. Frontis portrait "The Oath of Endowment". Previous owner's name "H.G. (?) Short, Knoxville, PA" to front free endpaper. 388 pp. Included in the Introduction, is an affidavit whereby Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith testifies that "in the year 1853, she was present when Brigham Young, General Wells, and John and Wiley Norton, discussed and adopted a plan for the murder of Wallace Alonzo Clarke Bowman, an Ameican citizen, at the time engaged in the Mexican trade.and that said Bowman was so murdered by direction of said Brigham Young.that a large amount of property was taken from said Bowman, by the said Mormons; and that at this time, said Brigham Young, was goernor of the said Territory of Utah." Apart from some occasional light spotting, textblock pages are supple, bright and unmarked. "The human mind is particularly open to the approach of relilgious delusion. Man is naturallyl religious, but prone perhaps to mix with the pure gospels of a pure system, something of a grosser sort, and is inclined to bring the latter down, and to square it with his own poor humanity, when unable to raise himself to the level of an exalted faith. Hence we find the success of these pretenders to new revelations, to be due less to the merit of what they teach, than to the weakness of their victims." (from author's preface) A later edition of this book was issued under the title: "Mormonism, Its Rise, Progress and Present Condition, &c." "Hartford: Belknap & Bliss, 1870. 12mo, pp. 472. Portraits.

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• Titre: FIFTEEN YEARS AMONG THE MORMONS: BEING THE NARRATIVE OF MRS. MARY ETTIE V. SMITH, LATE OF GREAT SALT LAKE CITY: A SISTER OF ONE OF THE MORMON HIGH PRIESTS, SHE HAVING BEEN PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH MOST OF THE MORMON LEADERS, AND LONG IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THE "PROPHET" BRIGHAM YOUNG
• Éditeur: Charles Scribner, New York
• Date de parution: 1858
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
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