Thomas Kane not only helped Mormons, he wrote history
Many of the enduring popular images of Nauvoo-era and pioneer-era Mormons flowed from of the gifted pen and oratory of Thomas L. Kane, a former Brigham Young University professor said Wednesday.
"My sense when I first read 'The Mormons' was yes, I know that, that's exactly how it was," Edward A. Geary said of reading Kane's 1850 book. "It really was Thomas Kane who was formulating the permanent images we have of Nauvoo and the migrating Mormons."
Kane may be famous for coming to the dramatic aid of the Latter-day Saints in 1846, when they had been driven from Nauvoo, Ill., and again in 1857, when the U.S. Army marched on Salt Lake City, but Geary said Kane's constant aid over three decades is overlooked.
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