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Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City, "That Mormon"

Benjamin Erastus Rich

Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon, 1893

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Mister Durant of Salt Lake City
Novel, Missionary Story
Ben E. Rich stated that during the 10 years he had done missionary work in the Southern United States he and his fellow missionaries sold 150,000 copies of this work (compared to 25,000 Books of Mormon), demonstrating the important role this fiction played in missionary work of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. (See Conference Report, April 1910, p. 91)
BX 8608 .A1a no.5428
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