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Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
When Orrin Porter Rockwell died of a heart attack in 1878, his name was as well known as Brigham Young's. Cowboys sang songs about him, and newspapers had frequently printed scandalous accounts about the malicious Mormon "destroying angel." But to many, Rockwell was a guardian angel, and it could be easily said he saved far more lives than he took. It seems history tells two contrasting narratives about one of the West's most controversial men.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like the legendary Samson of old, Orrin Porter Rockwell will forever be remembered as the man who did the impossible. One of the most colorful characters in LDS history, Rockwell was a famous frontiersman, a deadly marksman, and a staunch advocate of the LDS faith. Rockwell is the true story of the timid farm boy from New York who became the greatest gunfighter in the history of the American West. He drank his whiskey straight, signed his name
...Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One cold night in the Utah Territory, three opinionated men, seemingly by chance, find themselves sharing a campfire as they tell tales, swap insults, and expound on their personal beliefs and philosophies. However, one of the men is not there by mere coincidence. Join Porter Rockwell, Mark Twain, and J. Golden Kimball for an entertaining and intriguing evening with three of the most colorful characters of the Old West.
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
℗2019
Language
English
Description
When former Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs is shot by an unknown assailant, rumors quickly spread that the Mormons are responsible for the attempted assassination of the controversial politician. Never a friend of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Boggs had four years earlier issued the infamous extermination order that pronounced, "Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State."...
Author
Series
Porter Rockwell chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Stratford Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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