New Volume of 'Saints' Reveals Many Sides of Brigham Young

Latt er-day Saints imagine Brigham Young as a commanding theocrat, who mobilized a crestfallen and beleaguered people after the death of their prophet-founder, who led them on an epic exodus across the Plains to what they hoped would be a Zion in the West, who battled a hostile government, and whose fingerprint was on every move â?" from their arrival in the Great Basin to his death in 1877.

This image of the “Lion of the Lord,” as he was known, sits atop monuments, stands on statues and graces a university named for him. Read Full Article »