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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Leonard J Arrington

Historian of Mormon economic and frontier settlement history; author of Great Basin Kingdom.

Why this matters

Arrington documents persecution, gathering, and communal coordination in early Latter-day Saint history.

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Works

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Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900

Arrington, Leonard J. *Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958.

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