The Succession Crisis in Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

[Another installment in the roundtable on John Turner’s Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet.] If the first few chapters of Turner’s excellent biography narrate the foundations of Brigham Young’s Mormon experience, as Christopher outlined Tuesday, then it is the chapters surrounding Young’s assent to the Church’s top position (chapters 4-6) where the pioneer prophet’s dominant image comes … Continue reading The Succession Crisis in Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet