My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

"My Best for the Kingdom provides a valuable history of several little-known events in early Mormon history--the Church in Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1830s the Danites in Missouri Mormon resistance to Missouri persecutions ... the James Emmett expedition and pioneer Spanish Fork Utah...John L. Butlers autobiography given here in full rivals and adds to the accounts of Hosea Stout and John D. Lee in telling the Mormon story of the 1830s 40s and 50s. Butler was a valiant militiaman missionary frontiersman and bishop. A fast-moving informative well-researched and well-told account of Mormonism on the frontier...and pioneer Utah."--Leonard J. Arrington quoted on the back outside jacket.