Biloine Whiting Young

Books by Biloine Whiting Young

River of Conflict, River of Dreams

Three Hundred Years on the Upper Mississippi

A richly detailed history of the early Upper Mississippi as the major highway into America's Midwest frontier for Native Americans and for pioneers. Birchbark canoes, romantic passenger steamboats, log rafts, and grain barges all traveled Mark Twain's river. The commercial life of the Mississippi...
Obscure Believers

The Morman Schism of Alpheus Cutler

Illustrated by Matt Kania / Photographs by Danny Jorgensen
Engaging story of a vanished Minnesota community with roots in early Mormonism. Ms. Young tells the tale with consumate skill and deep respect for the small band who struggled the last half of the nineteenth century to establish and maintain stable communal life against the tides of social change...
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