Regional Studies in LDS Church History: California

Brigham Young Univ Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 289 p. Olive green wraps with colored antique map of California on cover. Long out-of-print collection of articles on Mormons in California unique to this book. Includes illustrations, maps, endnotes to each essay, and an index. New and never read, but with minor rubbing at the edges that originated in the publishing process. Articles include: First impressions: California through the eyes of its early saints, 1846-1857 by Andrew H. Hedges /// Sam Brannan and the lessons of history by Donald Q. Cannon /// Mormon Battalion's 2,000 mile march from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean by Larry C. Porter /// Jefferson Hunt: senior captain of the Mormon Battalion by Byron R. Merrill, Patrick J. Thurston by George Q. Cannon's mission to California, 1855-1857 by Lawrence R. Flake /// Like a fire in my bones: Reformation correspondence between Brigham Young and George Q. Cannon by Paul H. Peterson /// President Wilford Woodruff and the San Francisco pilgrimages by Allen Litchfield /// Earth shook and the sky burned: Ernest and Kirsten Broberg in San Francisco by Richard N. Holzapfel /// University credit for LDS religion classes at USC: a Mormon apostle in Trojan classrooms [John A. Widtsoe] by Alan K. Parrish /// Tabernacle on Treasure Island: LDS Church's involvement at the 1939-40 Golden State International Exhibition by Brent L. Top /// Golden builders of the golden state: the experiences of three extraordinary stake presidents [LeGrand Richards, Howard W. Hunter, David B. Haight] by Robert C. Freeman /// Good morning Los Angeles: the beginning of the early morning seminary program by Dennis Wright /// Long Beach California stake: a microcosm experiment in urban faithfulness by Susan Easton Black /// Making of a legacy: San Diego temple by Jeremiah K. Clark /// California odyssey: a personal view of the Latter-Day Saint experience in the golden state by Richard O. Cowan.