Reid L. Neilson is Assistant Church Historian and Recorder for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Managing Director of the Church History Department. He completed his PhD in religious studies (American religious history emphasis) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an award-winning author and has published over a dozen books. Nathan N. Waite is an Associate Editorial Manager for the Joseph Smith Papers Project in Salt Lake City. He received an MA in American studies from the University of Utah and previously published A Zion Canyon Reader.
The geographical register is also helpful and there is a
bibliography as well as an extensive index that adds to the
usefulness of the edition. The book thereby constitutes a kind of
encyclopedia for the LDS history and the pioneer period context
from 1849 to 1856.
*Hans Gerald Hödl, University of Vienna, Religious Studies
Review*
The book thereby constitutes a kind of encyclopedia for the LDS
history and the pioneer period context from 1849 to 1856.
*Hans Gerald Hödl, Religious Studies Review*
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles
of the Mormon First Presidency is a helpful, easy to use collection
that offers first hand glimpses into the concerns, struggles, and
experiences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in
the mid 19th century...Beyond Mormon studies, Settling the Valley,
Proclaiming the Gospel advances and facilitates scholarship in
disciplines as varied as comparative literature, American religious
history, history of the American West, religion, missiology, and
Native American studies.
*Mitch Nelson, Claremont Graduate University, Reading Religion*
Settling the Valley is a remarkably rich contribution to the study
of Mormon and Utah history. It is a handsom volume, with an
impressive dust jacket, and has set a standard of excellence to
which all future editors of similar-type literature and topics can
aspite.
*Richard E. Bennett, Journal of Mormon History*
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel will be helpful for
anyone studying Brigham Young, mid-nineteenth-century Church
leadership, and pioneer life in antebellum Utah Territory. Though
the epistles can be found separately in archives and some are
available online, having them all in one place, footnoted and
indexed, will be a welcome resource to any researcher of the
era.
*Gerrit van Dyk, BYU Studies Quarterly*
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