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From Kirtland to Salt Lake City (J. Little)

JAMES A. LITTLE.

JAMES A. LITTLE, PUBLISHER.
PRINTED AT THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
1890.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1890, by JAMES A. LITTLE, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

Dedicatory.

With feelings of heartfelt gratification and esteem, and by permission, this book is respectfully dedicated to PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF, The only living Apostle Pioneer.

THE AUTHOR.

Preface.

IT WAS not designed to make this little volume a detailed history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints, in the early stages of its growth. A consecutive narrative of its most important movements, the policies involved in them, the potent influences that forced them to a culmination, and some of their more immediate results is all that has been aimed at.

Only sketches have been made where volumes might be written, and the subject is far from exhausted even in the general way in which it has been handled.

It is hoped, that what is written will be found interesting and instructive to the reader and, what is of much importance, that all who may desire to peruse the book will find it easily within their reach.

History should not only give a correct narrative of events but, as well, the influences and motives that stimulated the actors. For this reason whenever they have left a record of their acts and motives, they should be permitted to speak for themselves. Hence, this book may be considered an epitome of the motives and experiences of the Saints who rejoiced and suffered in the persecutions and exoduses attending the early growth of the Latter-Day Work.

THE AUTHOR.

Index.