Playing with shadows
Subtitle: voices of dissent in the Mormon West
By: edited by Polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and Will Bagley
Series: Kingdom in the West : the Mormons and the American frontier -- v. 13
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Norman, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780870623806; 9780870624032
Subjects: Controversial literature; Mormon Church; History; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Church history
Other titles: Voices of dissent in the Mormon West
Description: This collection of narratives by four individuals who abandoned Mormonism--"apostates," as Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saint leaders labeled them--provides an overview of dissent from the beginning of the religion to the early twentieth century and presents a wide range of disaffection with the faith or its leaders.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-490) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : tracing a shadow : dissent and resistance in the Mormon West; title: George Armstrong Hicks : a life among the poor of Utah; title: Charles Derry : the distant feeling that seemed to pervade the very atmosphere; title: Ann Gordge : reality and imagination; title: Brigham Young Hampton : trials of faith.