More Amazing but True Mormon Stories

In More Amazing But True Mormon Stories, Joan Oviatt has an amazing talent for telling historical tales in a tantalizing, interest-grabbing style that saves the identity of the main character to the very end. Readers everywhere loved Amazing But True Mormon StoriesNow she’s done it again! She’s dug deep and researched effectively, assembling more than fifty new Mormon stories about significant but little-known events and people in Mormon history in this fun, highly readable volume.  Stories in this volume include The non-Mormon who saved Nauvoo, The unloved wife who provided 200,000 bushels of wheat to starving Europe, The woman who saved Brigham Young’s life with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, The Maori prophet who foretold the coming of Mormon missionaries, The Mormon doctor whose ideals led to the carving on Mt. Rushmore, and The Mormon choir that sang mass for Catholic services. Both books are highly entertaining and manage to reveal a lot of interesting insights on early and more recent Latter-day Saint history.

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by Joan Oviatt

Topics: Mormon history, Mormon stories, true accounts, prophecy, testimony, humor, heroes, heroines, Santa Claus, Ku Klux Klan, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, J. Golden Kimball, Emmeline Wells

Joan Oviatt has an amazing talent for telling historical tales in a tantalizing, interest-grabbing style that saves the identity of the main character to the very end. Readers everywhere loved Amazing But True Mormon StoriesNow she’s done it again! She’s dug deep and researched effectively, assembling more than fifty new Mormon stories about significant but little-known events and people in Mormon history in this fun, highly readable volume: More Amazing But True Mormon Stories.

She shares varies tales as:

Do Your Homework!

The Unpopular Girl

Santa Claus Versus the Ku Klux Klan

That Face

An Effective Speaker

Ephraim Humor

Lively Spirits

The Bear Lake Monsters

Monument to Dreams

The Unusual Speaker

Musical Identity

Hero for Peace

Super Star

The Mysterious Substance

Playing with Guns

A Wild West Tale

Reverse Psychology

A New Trend

Healing Stones

The Red Ghost

The Man Who Got Coal for Christmas

The Kid Who Drove Cars

Tale of the Dead Coyote

The Death Prophecy

Put Them Right

Half a World Away

The Cooperative Choir

A Modern Woman

The Runaway

Evicted From Their Town

The Gospel According to Gibson

Parley and the Bull Dog

Rebel with a Cause

The Promised Babe

Frontier M.D.

Emergency at the Virgin Ditch

The Big Mine

The Non-Mormon Who Saved Nauvoo

The Unloved Woman

Ghost in the Picture

Heavenly First Aid

The Naughty Boy

Maori Prophecy

Test of Brotherhood

Japanese Land

Taters and Testimony

Attack of the Dead Cat

Tale of the Buckskin Pants

Escape from Liberty

No Place to Lose a Cow

He Spoke with Humor and Persuasive Power

J. Golden and the Brass Band

He Couldn’t Be Broken

The Iceberg

The Cripple Who Wanted to Serve a Mission

Treat yourself and those around you to hours of reading enjoyment by delving into these lively tales preserved in More Amazing But True Mormon Stories.

6″ x 9″ paperback

172 pages