Ron Knapmiller normally wears his dark brown tresses cut extremely short, said his wife, Carol. But once notified he would be an extra in a movie partially filmed in La Crosse, Ron kept away from the ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

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Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...