William Adams ("Wild Bill") Hickman was one of the most notorious outlaws of the nineteenth-century American frontier. As a bodyguard and spy for Mormon church presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, he was popularly known as a "destroying angel."

In 1923 James Taylor Harwood began writing his memoirs shortly after his wife Harriett's death. He recorded the details of his youth, his studies and travels in Europe, the creative process behind his most significant paintings, and his teaching career. Then, from 1928, the memoirs became a journal that documented his second marriage and later works. A man of many interests, he was also a gentleman farmer and an...

In the 1880s Mary Jane Mount Tanner wrote her life's story to leave "to my posterity an account which I think will interest them, and give them an idea of the changes and vicissitudes we had to pass through in the early settlement of Utah, and also in the early rise of the Mormon church."

Annie Clark Tanner was born September 24, 1864, in Farmington, Utah, the oldest child of Ezra Thompson Clark and his polygamous second wife, Susan Leggett. While a student at Brigham Young Academy, she became the plural wife of a faculty member, Joseph Tanner, by whom she had eight children in an otherwise unhappy marriage.

Gardiner spent the Civil War years in New Orleans, after which he and his family traveled to England, then returned to Salt Lake City in the spring of 1869. Despite the uncertainty of his standing there, he remained to establish a medical practice and raise his family, dying in Utah in 1903.

As he approaches the end of a long and distinguished career, veteran historian Brigham D. Madsen turns an eye toward his final research subject, himself, with equal candor, aware of the same possibility for controversy, that has characterized his other works. Raised in Pocatello, Idaho, at a time when automobiles were just coming into fashion, Madsen's first real encounter with the outside world was on a Mormon mission to...

Hugh Brown Brown (1883-1975) served in the First Presidency of the Mormon church from 1961 to 1970—one of the most controversial decades of Latter-day Saint history. During these years he proved to be a compassionate and tolerant member of the church's general authorities. Shortly before his death, his grandson conducted the in-depth, candid interviews that appear in An Abundant Life, a refreshing look at one of Mormonism's best-loved leaders.

Breathe Life into Your Life Story is an essential read for anyone who aspires to write a life story—but not just any story, one your family and others will actually WANT to read.

What many do not know is that Brigham Young prepared for his life's mission in the state of New York. He was born in Vermont, taken to New York State as an infant, and raised on hard work by deeply religious parents. He lived and worked during most of his thirty years in the heart of the Finger Lakes region.

Readers may shudder to learn of Clark's views on race. He was partly responsible for the LDS Hospital's segreation of the blood of "whites" and "Negroes," his logic being that since anyone with as little as "one drop" of African blood was ineligible for LDS priesthood ordination, a transfusion from a black donor to a white recipient would render the latter incapable of exercising priesthood authority.