Miracles and Malice

About the Book

The story of Joseph Smith the man and the early history of the LDS church are inextricably intertwined. The boy Joseph’s first vision and the establishment of the new church that would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is a sacred event to more than sixteen million people around the world. This is a fascinating story of visions, angels, gold Bibles, exotic ancient records, persecutions, discrimination, false charges, sham trials, and the massacre of innocent Mormon settlers. Joseph Smith and the Mormons as a people were relentlessly persecuted for sixteen years from 1830 to 1846 and ran out of four different states, ending in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. To the faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who have never had any ill will against anyone, this unjustified persecution and blind prejudice was and still is a mystery.

About the Author

The author was raised in a rural area of NE Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University, and served his army tour at Fort Rucker Alabama. After working as a petroleum geologist all over the Rocky Mountain area for eleven years, he became a public schoolteacher for the next twenty years, and then retired to St. George Utah to relax, write four books, and teach geology classes for six years in the Community Education Program at Dixie State College. He has been married to his wife Catherine for 48 years. They have four grown children and 12 grandchildren, who they adore.