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	A Book of Mormons Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker Copyright 1982, Signature Books Salt Lake City, Utah Contents

introduction Elijah Abel Almon W. Babbitt John C. Bennett John M. Bernhisel Sam Brannan George H. Brimhall Fawn M. Brodie Hugh B. Brown Abraham H. Cannon Frank J. Cannon George Q. Cannon Martha Hughes Cannon Butch Cassidy J. Reuben Clark Oliver Cowdery Matthew Cowley Richard L. Evans Green Flake Susa Young Gates William S. Godbe Heber J. Grant Jedediah M. Grant Jacob Hamblin Martin Harris Bill Hickman Orson Hyde	Anthony W. Ivins Heber C. Kimball J. Golden Kimball Jesse Knight Harold B. Lee John D. Lee Amasa Lyman Amy Brown Lyman Francis M. Lyman Karl G. Maeser Thomas B. Marsh David O. McKay Edward Partridge David W. Patten Romania Pratt Penrose W. W. Phelps Orson Pratt Parely P. Pratt Alice Louise Reynolds Willard Richards Sidney Rigdon B. H. Roberts Porter Rockwell Aurelia Rogers Ellis Shipp Emma Smith George A. Smith	George Albert Smith Hyrum Smith Joseph Smith Joseph F. Smith Joseph Fielding Smith Lucy Mack Smith Reed Smoot Eliza R. Snow Erastus Snow Lorenzo Snow Fanny Stenhouse James E. Talmage Annie Clark Tanner John Taylor John W. Taylor Moses Thatcher Chief Walker Daniel H. Wells Emmeline B. Wells David Whitmer John A. Widtsoe Wilford Woodruff Brigham Young Brigham Young Jr. Zina D. H. Young cover


		Carefully researched and succinctly written, A Book of Mormons highlights seventy-eight historic figures. Photographs, little-known facts, and anecdotes vividly portray the public and private lives of prominent Mormon personalities. Included are all the presidents of the Church from Joseph Smith to Harold B. Lee, apostles and apostates, businessmen and educators, pioneers and politicians. The struggles and contributions of Mormon women are reflected in the lives of Lucy and Emma Smith, women's rights advocate Martha Hughes Cannon, and Church and civic leaders such as Eliza R. Snow, Emmeline B. Wells, and Amy Brown Lyman. The authors' even-handed approach gives the reader an opportunity to evaluate the checkered careers of early leaders such as Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Sidney Rigdon, and John C. Bennett, authors
	Fanny Stenhouse, Frank J. Cannon, and Fawn Brodie, and renegades Bill Hickman and Orrin Porter Rockwell. Through a hundred and fifty years of Mormonism, the interaction of such strong and diverse personalities with one another and with their church makes A Book of Mormons a fascinating social history. "An extraordinarily well-researched survey of the diverse lights and shadows of Mormon biography." —D. Michael Quinn
	title page A Book of Mormons Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker Signature Books dedication page Dedicated to the men and women who made Mormon history about the authors Richard S. Van Wagoner, a clinical audiologist in Salt Lake City, is an elders quorum instructor in Lehi, Utah, where he lives with his wife, Mary, and their five daughters. Steven C. Walker, an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, serves on a stake Sunday School board in Provo, Utah, where he lives with his wife, Ardith, and their three children. copyright page © Copyright 1982 by Signature Books Salt Lake City, Utah All Rights Reserved ISBN 0-941214-06-0 Printed in the United States of America