On The Mormon Frontier Hosea Stout Diary 2 Vol Set Brooks HCDJ LDS History NICE!

On The Mormon Frontier Hosea Stout Diary 2 Vol Set Brooks HCDJ LDS History NICE!_______________________________________________On The Mormon Frontier:  Diary of Hosea Stout 1844-1861by Hosea StoutEdited by Juanita BrooksPublished by University of Utah Press (1982)Volume 1: 1844-1848Volume 2: 1848-1861Condition:Excellent 1982 Reprint Edition Hardcover Books with Dust Jackets! NO MARKS! The bindings are both tight and all 769 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. The covers look perfect! The dust jackets are in excellent condition but do have light wear, and small tears on some of the corner edges, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!About Hosea Stout:Hosea Stout (September 18, 1810 – March 2, 1889) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer, soldier, chief of police, lawyer, missionary, and politician in Utah Territory.Stout was from Kentucky and one of the few early Mormons to come from The South. The Latter Day Saint Church occasionally opposed slavery which largely discouraged converts from this region of the U.S.Stout was born in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky into the large family of Joseph Stout and Ann Smith, both strict quakers. As a child, Stout was temporarily put in a Shaker school due to his family's financial hardships. However, after four years in the school, his father's circumstances improved and his father removed him from the school.In 1832, Hosea Stout enlisted with United States Mounted Ranger Battalion under Major Henry Dodge to fight in the Black Hawk War. The U.S. Rangers recruited from frontiersmen who served a one year enlistment and had to provide their own rifles and horses.During the time of the Black Hawk War, Hosea Stout became acquainted with the Latter Day Saints movement and was taught by later apostle Charles C. Rich. In 1837 he sold his business and move to Caldwell County, Missouri where the Latter Day Saints had gathered after their expulsion from Jackson County, Missouri and Kirtland, Ohio. Here he married Samantha Peck. Shortly after this he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.During the Missouri Mormon War of 1838, Hosea Stout was a member of the Danites, a Latter Day Saint vigilante group and took a central role in the events of the 1838 Mormon War, and fought in the Battle of Crooked River. After the Latter Day Saints were forced to leave Missouri and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, Hosea Stout served as a bodyguard for Joseph Smith. During this period he was also a commander in the Nauvoo Legion and the Chief of Police of Nauvoo. He was further set apart as President of the eleventh Quorum of Seventies and made a member of the Council of Fifty, an organization created by Joseph Smith in preparation for the Second Coming of Christ.NebraskaAfter Brigham Young and the LDS Church were forced to leave Nauvoo in 1846, Stout served as the chief of police in Winter Quarters, Nebraska when the Latter-day Saints migrated there. An early Mormon pioneer, Stout arrived in the Salt Lake Valley as a member of Heber C. Kimball's company in September 1848.Sometime after leaving Navuoo, Hosea Stout married additional wives, consistent with teachings and practices of the LDS church at the time. He wed a total of six wives.China and Hong Kong MissionsOn August 28, 1852, a decision was made by the Mormon missionary leaders that Elders Hosea Stout, James Lewis, and Chapman Duncan, along with Walter Thompson, were to travel on a mission to China. This was the first Mormon mission to China, and none in the group knew the Chinese language. Stout and his peers first traveled to the British Colony of Hong Kong, and from there traveled into mainland China. They made no converts there and so returned to Hong Kong, where they managed to convince only a few of their message. In late 1853, Stout and his peers returned to United States. His missions to China and Hong Kong were ultimately unsuccessful.WyomingIn November 1856, Stout helped rescue a snowbound handcart company caught in Wyoming. During the Utah War of 1857-1858, Stout helped build and maintain fortifications in Echo Canyon meant to deter federal forces from entering Utah Territory. In later years, "Wild Bill" Hickman admitted to murdering one Richard Yates during this period at the mouth of Echo Canyon. In a deal for immunity from prosecution, Hickman implicated Stout and other Mormon leaders in the murder. Stout was arrested for the crime in 1871 and was incarcerated for six months at Fort Douglas before being released and acquitted. In 1877, he retired from public life due to poor health and died 11 years later near Salt Lake City.PoliticsIn Utah, Stout started a long career in both law and politics. He was elected to the Utah Territory's House of Representatives in 1849 and was a part of the delegation to create a constitution for the proposed State of Deseret. Stout served as the first Attorney General of Utah Territory, and in 1851, he was one of the first lawyers admitted to the bar of Utah. From 1856 to 1857, he served as the speaker of the House. Later, he was chairman of the code commissioners, a territorial prosecutor, and U.S. Attorney.DiaryOne of Stout's greatest contributions was as a diarist. The "Diary of Hosea Stout" has become an invaluable resource for historians of the Latter-day Saints in the nineteenth-century.Copyright © 2018-2023 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.