About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Brigham Young, Joseph F. Smith, Heber C. Kimball, Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George Q. Cannon, Lorenzo Snow, Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, William Smith, George Reynolds, Orson Hyde, Lyman Wight, Brigham Young, Jr., Council of Fifty, Amasa Lyman, George A. Smith, Heber J. Grant, William Clayton, William Marks, Hyrum Smith, Francis M. Lyman, John Willard Young, Porter Rockwell, W. W. Phelps, John Van Cott, John D. Lee, David Fullmer, Isaac Morley, Orson Spencer, Willard Richards, Charles W. Penrose, John R. Winder, Jedediah M. Grant, Cornelius P. Lott, Charles C. Rich, Daniel H. Wells, John W. Taylor, Franklin D. Richards, Abraham O. Smoot, Joseph Young, Moses Thatcher, John S. Fullmer, Hosea Stout, Erastus Snow, William W. Taylor, John E. Page, John Henry Smith, Benjamin F. Johnson, Ezra T. Benson, Angus M. Cannon, John Milton Bernhisel, Albert Carrington, Joseph Fielding, Abraham H. Cannon, Joseph Angell Young, John Thomas Caine, Shadrach Roundy, John Q. Cannon, Newel K. Whitney, William Henry Hooper, George Teasdale, Robert T. Burton, Edward Hunter, John Smith, Alpheus Cutler, William B. Preston, Christopher Layton. Excerpt: Brigham Young (pronounced; June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. He was also the founder of Salt Lake City and the first governor of Utah Territory, United States. Brigham Young University was named in his honor. Young had a variety of nicknames, among the most popular being "American Moses," (alternatively the "Modern Moses" or the "Mormon Moses") because, like the biblical figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an exodus through a desert, to wh...
