Best Early Saints Biography?

[MDalby]

Lately, I have really enjoyed biographies of the early saints. I have read Wilford Woodruff, Heber C Kimball, Parley P Pratt, Hyrum Smith. Any others that you recommend?

[Duncan]

oh heavens, Orson Hyde by Myrtle Hyde Stevens, David W. Patten by Linda....Edward Patridge by...., Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow I think, Brigham Young by Arrington, Orson Pratt by Breck England, Sidney Rigdon and Van Wagoner, Who's Who in the Doctrine and Covenants by Susan Easton Black-those are the ones I can think of right now

[MDalby]

I have been interested in getting a book on Sidney Rigdon. Which one do you recommend?

[Duncan]

I have been interested in getting a book on Sidney Rigdon. Which one do you recommend?

I know of the Van Wagoner one and I think but don't quote me on this but I think someone did a thesis on him, might be at BYU's "Masters Thesis on Mormonism"? check there!

[volgadon]

Arrington's From Quaker to Latter-day Saint, which is about Bishop Woolley.

[Gohan]

Mormon Thunder about Jedidiah M. Grant is most excellent.

[Robert F. Smith]

Lately, I have really enjoyed biographies of the early saints. I have read Wilford Woodruff, Heber C Kimball, Parley P Pratt, Hyrum Smith. Any others that you recommend?

There are many great biographies, but there is one short autobiography I always recall when queried: Wilford Woodfruff, Leaves from My Journal (1882). You can read it online at http://archive.org/details/leavesfrommyjour00woodrich . Chapter one is a short and great read for anyone. It has more substantive doctrine and truth in a few pages than tomes with hundreds of pages. I happened on an original copy of it back in the 1960s in a used book store in Frisco, and I couldn't put it down. It brings the full impact of the extraordinary nature of the early LDS Church to you right now. Woodruff takes you back in time, to another age, and you'll feel as though you visited those times and places with him.