Although historians have estimated that anywhere from 50,000 to 90,000 Mormon pioneers crossed the plains between 1847 and 1868, it is impossible to know exactly how many pioneers immigrated to...

The 1997 Sesquicentennial Mormon Trail Wagon Train, making its way through desolate Wyoming wilderness, looks as though it might have rolled right out of the past. The wagon train, which left...

BYU-HAWAII - Chief information officer; send letter of application to Gaylene K. Nikora, Director of Human Resources, BYU-Hawaii Box 1969, Laie, Hawaii 96762.

Sometimes called an American Moses, Brigham Young followed the pattern of migration used by Moses in the Old Testament. Moses placed "able men" to be "rulers of thousands, and rulers of...

The word earnest is a commercial term to denote a deposit paid by a buyer upon entering into an agreement for the purchase of something. In what analogous sense is this term used in the scriptures?...

Thomas L. Kane visited Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846, not long after the Saints' exodus, and in an 1850 lecture, gave a graphic word-picture of the abandoned Church headquarters. In the lecture given...

As an Air Force chaplain, Lt. Col. Kevin Anderson was assigned to conduct interdenominational worship services at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Initially, there were doubts in the minds of some...

June 9, 1859, was a happy day in William Atkin's life. He stood with his wife, Luella M. Atkin, and their two young children on the banks of the Missouri River as part of the George Rowley (8th...

When the "Mormon Trail Wagon Train - 150 Years" reaches Salt Lake Valley July 22, tens of thousands of people will welcome it in ceremonies at This Is Place State Park at the mouth of Emigration...

Reduced viewing time of television has been a great advantage in our home. My husband Allen, I and our children, Leila, 11; Alisha, 9; Logan, 8; Jessie, 6; Reece, 3; and Wade, 7 months; haven't...