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500 Little Known Facts in Mormon History |
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George Givens |
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$13.56 (Reg $15.95) |
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ISBN: 1-55517-651-8 SIZE: 260 pages, 6x9", paperback
AVAILABLE: July 2002 CATEGORY: LDS Non-Fiction/History
(LDS Books)
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Key Features-
- The book's chronological format allows readers to feel they are progressing through the early years of the church.
- Each fact is filled with rich history.
Do you know?
- What happened to the stone box that held the gold plates?
- There were once two other sacred buildings scheduled to be built in Kirtland?
- Which apostle died before he knew he had been called to the Quorum of the Twelve?
- Why Relief Society Meetings were suspended for 23 years?
- The name of the Indian chief who consecrated all of his tribe's property to the Church?
- Who was ordained an apostle at age eleven?
- How Teddy Roosevelt tried to help the Saints?
- Plus hundreds more interesting facts from LDS Church history!
Reviews-
These fascinating moments in church history add an unexpected touch to seminary classes on church history, liven up a quiet afternoon of reading, and send the serious student off to learn more!
Why were LDS Relief Society meetings suspended for more than two decades? Who was the first settler in Utah? How did the RLDS Church gain possession of the Kirtland Temple? Readers will find answers to these and 497 other questions in George Givens's 500 Little-Known Facts in Mormon History, which offers "brief, unusual facts... to make Mormon history readable and interesting." The chapters are organized in roughly chronological order, beginning in 1813 and ending in 1921. Givens has an eye for entertaining detail and makes an effort to tell the reader when a particularly colorful story is "possibly apocryphal.
-Publisher's Weekly, Oct. 2002
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