Parley P. Pratt”s 199th birthday anniversary is fast approaching. To celebrate, the voices and writers behind the musical “Parley P. Pratt”s Great Escape” decided to put on a free tribute in his honor ...

This story appeared in The Daily Universe on Thursday, August 18. The story of LDS hero Parley P. Pratt?s thrilling escape from jail fitted with gospel garb and soul sizzling numbers is displayed in ...

COLUMBIA — It was July 1839, and Parley P. Pratt was locked up in the Boone County jail. The 22-year-old, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had been arrested after a series ...

The Parley P. Pratt Freedom Run on July Fourth will celebrate Americans’ right to free speech, press, assembly, petition and religion for the 30th time. Participants will gather near the Boone County ...

Early Mormonism is filled with colorful and influential characters, from the founding prophet, Joseph Smith, to gunslingers like Porter Rockwell and brilliant organizers like Brigham Young. One of the ...

A biography of the Book of Mormon. In the summer of 1830, Parley P. Pratt, an itinerant preacher in western New York state and attracted at that point to the “primitivist” teachings of Alexander ...

"This is a key piece to what could be a much bigger, more incredible project," said Juan Arce-Larreta, chairman of the advocacy group Parley's Rails Trails and Tunnels, or PRATT (a play on the trail's ...

“The precipitous mountain pass that led the [Mormon] pioneers down into the Salt Lake Valley and still is the route of access from the east on Interstate 80, was first explored by my great-grandfather ...

The remains of an early Mormon leader killed 151 years ago in Arkansas can be disinterred and moved to Utah for burial as long as other burial sites are not disturbed, a judge has ruled. A descendant ...

Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 158-185 (28 pages) ...