On Saturday, here in this very space, I posted a couple of references to the alleged “transfiguration” of Brigham Young that is said by quite a few to have occurred while he was speaking to an outdoor audience of Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, on 8 August 1844. (See “Two Witnesses to a Pivotal Event.”) This speech, of course, was given in the wake of the 27 June 1844 assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith that had left the... Read more