In the 19th century, for many in the East Coast of the United States, Brigham Young may have been the image they saw when they thought of Mormonism, but the ideas they heard coming from the new religion came mostly from the Apostle Orson Pratt. That’s a conclusion reached by Top of Utah author Breck England, in his still-important biography of Pratt, The Life and Thought of Orson Pratt.
Political Surf on the life of Mormonism’s first intellectual
by Doug Gibson.
The Political Surf, Ogden Standard Examiner Blogs, Jun 19th, 2009.
http://blogs.standard.net/2009/06/19/political-surf-on-the-life-of-mormonisms-first-intellectual/
