Exemplary Elder: The Life and Missionary Diaries of Perrigrine Sessions, 1814-1893

Between 1815 and 1893, Perrigrine Sessions traveled some 50,000 miles. He spent most of his life on a road or a trail, on foot or on horseback, in a wagon, or a train. Through this documentary history, readers trek beside this energetic sojourner. His diaries delve into both familiar and little-known events of early Church history. For example, he tells of his family’s 1838 exodus from Missouri. He also mentions the Nauvoo Temple and the “flaim of fier” that appeared when the figure of an a...