Latter-Day Saints in Mesa
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Turner, D. L. / Ellis, Catherong>inong>e H., PUBLISHER: Arcadia Publishong>inong>g (SC), The city of Mesa ong>inong>itially began with a tong>inong>y colonizong>inong>g expedition sent from Utah by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saong>inong>ts ong>inong> . These devoted pioneers and others who followed faced an arduous trek, oppressive heat, and drought but persevered ong>inong> their mandate. Two years later, Andrew S. Gibbons predicted the Salt River Valley would become athe garden spot of Arizona, a notong>inong>g a climate well adapted to raisong>inong>g grapes, cotton, sugar cane, oranges, and olives. Agriculture became the foundation of the town of Lehi, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa ong>Inong>dian Community, and the city of Mesa, now the third-largest municipality ong>inong> the state of Arizona. This retrospective highlights both the growth of the church ong>inong> Mesa and the unique experiences of its members from those early days to the modern era.