'My Life Was Sparked for Some Purpose' Zadok Knapp Judd and Jonathan Harriman Holmes in California and on the Road Home to Zion
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004. 1/55. 15pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Item #10588
Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 7 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'Gold Rush Saints: California Mormons and in the Rush for Riches.' From 1846 to 1857 Mormons played a prominent and crucial role in shapingevents in California and the West. They were the first American settlers of San Francisco. Without them John Sutter would probably not have built his sawmill, and gold would not have been discovered in 1848. Mormons were present at the first gold discovery, made many of the initial 'Strikes,' and accumulated some of the first fortunes in the gold fields. They opened new routes between California and the Great Basin.
The Kingdom in the West Series, subtitled 'The Mormons and the American Frontier,' is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explored the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that, for one reason or another, found no place in the traditional annals of the region. This series explored the story of the Mormon people and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Primary source documents, many of them previously unpublished, comprise this series' core.
Price: $20.00