Under
the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, 2003, Excerpts
“My mother was born
into a world of early twentieth-century Mormon Utah – a place that, in many
respects, was dramatically different from the America that surrounded it. The
Mormons had long possessed a strong and spectacular sense of otherness and
unity: The saw themselves not only as God’s modern chosen people, but also as a
people whose faith and identity had been forged by a long and bloody history,
and by outright banishment. They were a people apart – a people with its own
myths and purposes, and with a history of astonishing violence.” Mikal Gilmore,
Shot in the Heart.
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