Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barney, Ronald O

Titel

One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894

Ort / Verlag

Utah State University, University Libraries

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Link zum Volltext

• DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books (ZDB-94-OAB)
• DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books (ZDB-94-OAB)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barneys sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barneys tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barneys life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his family. Ron Barneys detailed biography of Lewis Barney provides a participants view of Mormonisms first six decades of controversy, hardship, and triumph, viewed from the bottom of the social heap. Despite his wide-ranging experience and endless sacrifices, Lewis Barney was a worker in the Mormon vineyard, not one of the princes of the Kingdom of God whose lives have been so exhaustively celebrated. Barneys lack of status in this complex hierarchy adds tremendously to the value of this study, since so much nineteenth-century LDS biography has ignored the lives of ordinary people to celebrate a surprisingly small elite whose experiences were far different from those of the general Mormon population