The Secrets of George Laub’s Journals

Revised records? Teenage pregnancies? Shotgun weddings? All this and more in George Laub’s journals, which LDS Church historians describe as “a boots-on-the-ground view” of early Mormon history despite being written years later and then revised later still.

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Notes:

BYU article on Young’s “transfiguration:” https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-mantle-of-the-prophet-joseph-passes-to-brother-brigham-a-collective-spiritual-witness/#footnote-192-backlink

Original Journal: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/99e8a641-a854-428c-a9b2-e1fcad1e15b1/0/0

Revised Journal: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/bf25591b-611a-4d3c-a6d9-e320a4a1b538/0/0

LDS Historian Hepworth article: https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/blog/george-laub-journal-a-case-study-in-unique-library-resosurces?lang=eng

BYU transcript: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1890&context=byusq

Laub’s Family on FamilySearch: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWJZ-1MX/george-laub-1814-1880