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"People don't know Brigham Young," LaJean Purcell Carruth said. After decades of work transcribing 1.2 million words of this early leader — including hundreds of thousands of words never before available — Carruth says with confidence: "I know Brigham Young. I know his voice. I know his heart. I know his soul."








