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About this book

Life of Heber C. Kimball

Summary

The life of Heber C. Kimball, Apostle and counselor to Brigham Young, from Vermont to the Salt Lake Valley: Kirtland, Zion’s Camp, the first mission to England in 1837, Nauvoo and the pioneer trail. Heber’s own journal entries and letters are read in his voice.

The book

Author
Orson F. Whitney
Date of the work
1888
Edition recorded
1888 edition (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office)
Listening time
15 h 0 min
Chapters
70

Where this text comes from

Orson F. Whitney, Heber’s grandson, drew on Heber’s own journals and letters; the book was printed in Salt Lake City at the Juvenile Instructor Office in 1888. Each chapter’s printed synopsis is read at its start; footnotes appear as small numbers you can tap and are not read.

Text produced for Project Gutenberg by the Mormon Texts Project and its volunteers (released February 19, 2011).

Public domain

Public domain, free to share. The text of Life of Heber C. Kimball is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1888. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright there.

This site claims no copyright or trademark in the text. It uses no logos, trademarks or modern artwork of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or anyone else, and the cover picture is also in the public domain. Names such as “Book of Mormon” or the Church’s own name appear only to identify the book and its subject, and belong to their owners.

This is an independent project, not produced, sponsored or endorsed by the Church. The voices are AI-generated.