| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4 | The History Cooperative

Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith. By Gary James Bergera. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002. xi + 312 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)
Those historians of the American West who include the Mormon experience usually focus on settlement patterns, water rights, relationships with Native Americans, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, church and state conflicts, and plural marriage. Mormonism is depicted as a monolithic corporate structure that leaves little room for theological speculation and freedom of thought. Writers tend to believe that when the Lion of the Lord (Brigham Young) roared all the thinking had been done and Utah grew silent. Only the sounds of church members rushing to fall into step filled the mountain air.	1
Gary James Bergera relates a different story as he details the theological conflicts that raged between Brigham Young and Orson Pratt. Was Mormonism, according to Pratt's argument, to become a religion primarily bound to scripture or would it continue to find its fundamental strength in the living oracles who led the church, the position espoused by Brigham Young?	. . .

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