Under the Banner of Heaven

by Jon Krakauer

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  Acknowledgments

  This book benefited tremendously from the expert attention it received from numerous individuals at Doubleday Broadway, Anchor-Vintage, and Villard. I am especially grateful to Charlie Conrad, Bill Thomas, Steve Rubin, Alison Presley, Kathy Trager, John Fontana, Caroline Cunningham, Bette Alexander, Suzanne Herz, Michael Palgon, David Drake, Alison Rich, Rachel Pace, Jackie Everly, John Pitts, Claire Roberts, Louise Quayle, Carol Lazare, Laura Welch, Brian McLendon, Marty Asher, LuAnn Walther, Deb Foley, and Jennifer Marshall.

  Thanks to John Ware for being such a terrific agent, Bonnie Thompson for her meticulous copyediting, Jeff Ward for the monochrome maps, and Linda Moore for creating the exquisite map of the Arizona Strip printed on the endpapers.

  Bill Briggs, Pat Joseph, Carol Krakauer, David Roberts, and Sharon Roberts read the book in manuscript and offered valuable criticism when it was needed most.

  I'm grateful to Ruth Fecych, David Rosenthal, Ann Godoff, Mark Bryant, and Scott Moyers for reading an early, partial draft of the manuscript and providing helpful feedback.

  This undertaking would have gone nowhere without considerable assistance from DeLoy Bateman, Eunice Bateman, Virginia Bateman, David Bateman, Jim Bateman, Holly Bateman, Ellen Bateman, Fern Bateman, Diana Bateman, Roger Bateman, Sarah Bateman, Maria Bateman, Kevin Bateman, Randy Bateman, Jason Bateman, Craig Chatwin, D. Michael Quinn, Debbie Palmer, Jolene Palmer, Jay Beswick, Flora Jessop, Lorna Craig, Wesley Larsen, Wynn Isom, Mareena Blackmore, Bernice DeVisser, Gayla Stubbs, Lenora Spencer, Mary Taylor, Robert Crossfield, Barry Crowther, Betty McEntire, LaRae Wright, Debbie Babbitt, Thomas Brunker, Kris C. Leonard, Michael Wims, Creed H. Barker, Nora S. Worthen, Tasha Taylor, and Stan Larsen.

  My research was informed by the work of fellow journalists Peggy Fletcher Stack, Carolyn Campbell, Michael Vigh, Greg Burton, Tom Zoellner, Fabian Dawson, Dean E. Murphy, Daniel Woods, Angie Parkinson, Will Bagley, Pauline Arrillaga, Chris Smith, Mike Gorrell, Ann Shields, Kevin Cantera, Holly Mullen, Paul Angerhofer, Geoffrey Fattah, Rebecca Boone, Brandon Griggs, Phil Miller, Brian Maffly, Susan Greene, Suzan Mazur, Julie Cart, Dave Cunningham, Dave Wagner, Dawn House, Hilary Groutage Smith, Robert Matas, Robert Gehrke, Maureen Zent, Tom Gorman, Bob Mims, Tom Wharton, John Llewellyn, John Dougherty, Marianne Funk, Joan Thompson, Lee Davidson, Susan Hightower, Ellen Fagg, Mike Carter, Jennifer Dobner, Pat Reavy, Jerry D. Spangler, Elaine Jarvik, James Thalman, Derek Jensen, Lucinda Dillon, Lee Benson, Ted C. Fishman, Chris Jorgensen, Alf Pratte, Dave Jonsson, Elizabeth Neff, Brooke Adams, Matt Canham, Stephen Hunt, Taylor Syphus, David Kelly, Jeffrey P. Haney, Dennis Wagner, Patty Henetz, Mark Havnes, Bob Bernick, Adam Liptak, Norman Wagner, Tim Fitzpatrick, Maureen Palmer, and Helen Slinger.

  For providing inspiration, companionship, and sage counsel I'm indebted to Becky Hall, Neal Beidleman, Chhongba Sherpa, Tom Hornbein, Pete Schoening, Klev Schoening, Harry Kent, Owen Kent, Steve Komito, Jim Detterline, Conrad Anker, Dan Stone, Roger Schimmel, Beth Bennett, Greg Child, Renée Globis, Roger Briggs, Colin Grissom, Kitty Calhoun, Jay Smith, Bart Miller, Roman Dial, Peggy Dial, Steve Rottler, David Trione, Robert Gully, Chris Archer, Rob Raker, Larry Gustafson, Steve Swenson, Jenni Lowe, Gordon Wiltsie, Doug Chabot, Steve Levin, Chris Reveley, Andrew McLean, Liesl Clark, John Armstrong, Dave Hahn, Rob Meyer, Ed Ward, Matt Hale, Chris Gulick, Chris Wejchert, Mark Fagan, Sheila Cooley, Kate Fagan, Dylan Fagan, Charlotte Fagan, Karin Krakauer, Wendy Krakauer, Sarah Krakauer, Andrew Krakauer, Tim Stewart, Bill Costello, Mel Kohn, Robin Krakauer, Rosalie Stewart, Alison Stewart, Shannon Costello, Maureen Costello, Ari Kohn, Miriam Kohn, Kelsi Krakauer, A. J. Krakauer, Mary Moore, Ralph Moore, David Quammen, Laura Brown, Pamela Brown, Helen Apthorp, Bill Resor, Story Clark, Rick Accomazzo, Gerry Accomazzo, Alex Lowe, Steve McLaughlin, Marty Shapiro, Caroline Carminati, Brian Nuttall, Drew Simon, Walter Kingsbery, Eric Love, Josie Heath, Margaret Katz, Lindsey Delaplaine, Rosemary Haire, Nancy McElwain, Andy Pruitt, and Jeff Stieb.

  And special thanks to John Winsor, Bridget Winsor, Harry Winsor, Charlie Winsor, Paul Fuller, Mary Gorman, Amy Beidleman, Nina Beidleman, Reed Beidleman, Kevin Cooney, Annie Maest, Emma Cooney, Mike Pilling, Kerry Kirkpatrick, Charley LaVenture, Sally LaVenture, and Willow LaVenture for the crucial advice and support they provided in Mexico.

  Index

  A

  Aden, William

  Adkison, Julie

  alcohol use

  Alger, Fanny

  Allred, Byron C.

  Allred, Rulon

  American Civil Liberties Union

  American Indians

  Dunn-Howland massacre attributed to

  see also Paiutes; Shivwits

  American Religion, The (Bloom)

  Anderson, Kenneth

  Andrus, Hyrum L.

  apostasy

  Apostolic United Brethren

  Army, U.S.

  Arrillaga, Pauline

  Asahara, Shoko

  Ashcroft, John

  Aum Shinrikyo

  B

  Bagley, Will

  Baker, John T.

  Barlow, Dan Jr.

  Barlow, Dan Sr.

  Barlow, John Y.

  Bartholow, Roberts

  Barzee, Wanda

  Bateman, Daniel R.

  Bateman, David

  Bateman, DeLoy

  Bateman, Eunice

  Bateman, Randy

  Bateman, Samuel

  Bateman, William

  battered women

  see also wife beating

  Beaver Island colony

  Beck, Ken

  Becky (spiritual wife)

  Benson, Ezra Taft

  Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (Stegner)

  Bible

  Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord in

  bin Laden, Osama

  Blackmore, Alaire

  Blackmore, Andrew

  Blackmore, Annie Vandeveer

  Blackmore, Evangeline

  Blackmore, Gwendolyn LeBaron

  Blackmore, Kenyon

  Blackmore, Lena

  Blackmore, Memory

  Blackmore, Ray

  Blackmore, Renny

  Blackmore, Winston

  blacks:

  in Mormon priesthood

  see also racism; slavery

  blessings

  blood atonem
ent (Oath of Vengeance)

  Blood Covenant, The (Chynoweth)

  Blood of the Prophets (Bagley)

  Bloom, Harold

  Boggs, Lilburn

  “Book of Immanuel David Isaiah, The”

  Book of Mormon, The

  government and

  narrative of

  popularity of

  review of

  translation and publication of

  Young's military strategy and

  Book of Onias, The, see Second Book of Commandments, The

  Book of the Law of the Land

  Book of the New Covenants, The (Ervil LeBaron)

  Bountiful, British Columbia

  Bradley, George

  Brady, Bernard

  removal revelation and

  Brigham Young University

  Brodie, Fawn

  Brooks, Juanita Leavitt

  Brown, Samuel

  Bryant, John W.

  Buchanan, James

  Bullock, J. Robert

  Burton, Sir Richard Francis

  Bush, George W.

  C

  Calvinism

  Campbell, Carolyn

  Carleton, James H.

  Carnes, Chip

  Carnes, Gary

  Carthage Greys

  Carthage jail

  Catholicism

  Chase, Sally

  child abuse

  see also rape, child

  Christianity

  fundamentalism and

  see also specific sects

  Church of Jesus Christ in Solemn Assembly

  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, see Mormonism

  Church of the Lamb of God

  Chynoweth, Rena

  City of Refuge

  Civil War, American

  Clayton, William

  Cleveland, Grover

  Colonia LeBaron, Mexico

  Colorado City, Utah-Ariz. (Short Creek)

  raid on

  welfare fraud in

  Colorado River Controversies (Stanton)

  Confederated States of the Exiled Nation of Israel

  Congress, U.S.

  Constitution, U.S.

  Cooke, Beth

  Coronado, David

  Coronado, Emmylou

  Coronado, Pamela

  Craig, Lorna

  Crapanzano, Vincent

  Crossfield, Robert (Prophet Onias)