Encouraging the Saints: Brigham Young's Annual Tours of the Mormon Settlements BY GORDON IRVING
Engraving depicting the fanfare that often accompanied Brigham visits to the settlements. Utah State Historical Society collections.
Young's
thirty years as the religious leader of the Latter-day Saints his pragmatic vision of building up the kingdom of God in the West led him to involve himself personally in all the affairs of his people. The scale of Mormon society during the pioneer period J J T J R I N G BRIGHAM Y O U N G ' S
M r . Irving is a historical associate in the Historical D e p a r t m e n t of the C h u r c h of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
