Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts

Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

David Roberts

631 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion dark informative slow-paced
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Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy is ideal for readers drawn to meticulously researched historical dramas that explore the intersection of faith, leadership failures, and human resilience in the face of preventable catastrophe.

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The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations--and how Brigham Young made it a parable of the indomitable Mormon spirit. - Dramatic re-telling of a terrible but little-known tragedy: In 1856...

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