Carl Carmer

Articles by this Author

Rout Of The Varmints, April 1973 | Vol. 24, No. 3

This Hollowed-out Ground, June 1967 | Vol. 18, No. 4

A site for a proposed hydroelectric project also was the site of a grim Revolutionary War battle.

“here Is My Home At Last!”, February 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 2

When Brigham Young’s party abandoned Illinois to seek a final refuge for the Latter-day Saints, none knew where they would come to rest. But as they entered Salt Lake Valley, they were sure that the long quest was over

The Farm Boy And The Angel, October 1962 | Vol. 13, No. 6

Of sensitive, mystical Joseph Smith, of a heavenly visitor and a buried scripture, and of the founding of a new religion destined to enlist many followers and carve from the desert a new Zion

The Death Of The Prophet, December 1962 | Vol. 14, No. 1

The Mormons grow in numbers, but persecution makes them wanderers. Then a burst of violence results in

The Lordly Hudson, December 1958 | Vol. 10, No. 1

Over 350 years a mighty pageant of history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of the Mountains”

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