Bøker av Thomas M. Spencer

The Veiled Prophet organisation has been an institution in St Louis for more than a century. Founded in 1878, it was fashioned after the New Orleans Carnival society the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Thomas Spencer explores the social and cultural functions of the organisation's annual celebration and traces the shifts that occurred in its importance.

This collection of 35 five-star hiking trails in the Birmingham area includes popular routes and hidden treasures.

The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence fed by misunderstanding and suspicion. The Missouri persecutions greatly shaped Mormon faith and culture. This book reexamines Mormon-Missourian history within the sociocultural context of its time.