A history of Washington County: From isolation to destination ([Utah centennial county history series])

History

DOUGLAS D. ALDER

Americas

Washington County Commission

Juanita Brooks' influence was such that she had a lecture series named for her five years before her 1989 death. In 1984, Obert C. Tanner, founder of O.C. Tanner Co., endowed the Juanita Brooks Lectures Series at what is now Dixie State University, the same institution where Brooks herself was an instructor for a time. Each year a different respected scholar from throughout Utah and across the United State comes to St. George to deliver the lecture. Like Brooks, many of the scholars have written about Mormon history. Some of them share her membership in the church, others do not. But they all have a common goal: objective history over partisan posturing. Among the lecturers are prominent historians like Levi S. Peterson (1989) and Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1992). While most are LDS, some like Jan Shipps (1987) and Larry Logue (1990), are not. Similarly, some are locals like Hurricane native W. Paul Reeve (2007) and Cedar City resident Wayne K. Hinton (2001), while others come from northern Utah or even other states.

Honoring Juanita Brooks: A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series, Dixie State University

DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY

Brigham Young was determined to fulfill the charge Joseph Smith had given him to finalize the endowment and sealing ceremonies and begin administering these sacred ordinances to the living in behalf of their dead. This work, however, could be performed only in a dedicated temple. Knowing the temple being built in Salt Lake City would require years to complete, Brother Brigham was inspired to build a temple that could be constructed sooner. The place he designated was in Utah's Dixie, an isolated desert outpost that had only recently been settled. In this riveting volume, best-selling author Blaine M. Yorgason presents the inspiring true story of the enormous sacrifice and prodigious labor performed by the St. George pioneers called to bring the prophet's vision to fruition. The authors document details of the temple's construction, and they recount many previously untold, often miraculous, stories of those who sacrificed greatly and worked diligently to raise a majestic, snow-white house of the Lord in the red-rock wilderness of southern Utah. Equally compelling are accounts of events after the dedication of parts of the temple in January 1877. Brigham Young and other Church leaders sought and received revelation on how the temple ordinances were to be formalized, and Wilford Woodruff was inspired to do the work for the founding fathers of the United States and other prominent men and women who dies before the gospel was restored. The St. George Temple is the place where the Lord at last revealed all that was promised through the coming of Elijah and where temple worship, as we now know it, was practiced by the Latter-day Saints.

All That Was Promised: The St. George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration

Blaine M. Yorgason

Richard A. Schmutz

Deseret Book

p&gt;Brigham Young was determined to fulfill the charge Joseph Smith had given him to finalize the endowment and sealing ceremonies and begin administering these sacred ordinances to the living in behalf of their dead. This work, however, could be performed only in a dedicated temple. Knowing the temple being built in Salt Lake City would require years to complete, Brother Brigham was inspired to build a temple that could be constructed sooner. The place he designated was in Utah's Dixie, an isolated desert outpost that had only recently been settled. In this riveting volume, best-selling author Blaine M. Yorgason presents the inspiring true story of the enormous sacrifice and prodigious labor performed by the St. George pioneers called to bring the prophet's vision to fruition. The authors document details of the temple's construction, and they recount many previously untold, often miraculous, stories of those who sacrificed greatly and worked diligently to raise a majestic, snow-white house of the Lord in the red-rock wilderness of southern Utah. Equally compelling are accounts of events after the dedication of parts of the temple in January 1877. Brigham Young and other Church leaders sought and received revelation on how the temple ordinances were to be formalized, and Wilford Woodruff was inspired to do the work for the founding fathers of the United States and other prominent men and women who dies before the gospel was restored. The St. George Temple is the place where the Lord at last revealed all that was promised through the coming of Elijah and where temple worship, as we now know it, was practiced by the Latter-day Saints.

All That Was Promised: St George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration

Dixie Saints tells the stories of the common folk who lived in Utah's "Dixie": the farmers and the ranchers, the fruit peddlers, the road builders, the timber cutters and lumber makers, the freighters, the midwives, the mothers and child nurturers, the teachers, the choir singers and band players--those whose names are on genealogy charts but seldom in the history books. These people weren't considered pioneers, because they were of the second generation in the area, but they worked hard and helped hard and helped to lay a foundation for thriving communities.
This book consists of interviews conducted with people born between 1880 and 1910 who grew up in southwestern Utah, the Arizona Strip, and the Muddy River region in Nevada. The excerpts are divided into seven topical chapters: family life/childhood/teenage years, school, work, health and sickness, Mormon colonists in Mexico, interactions with Native Americans, and service. In his introductory essay, the author offers 15 overarching observations based upon the interviews. These furnish a valuable collective portrait of life on the fringes of Mormon society early in the twentieth century--a time period that has been largely overlooked in the social history of Mormonism.

Dixie Saints: Laborers in the Field

RSC/BYU/Deseret Book Company

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