On the cover: Front: photo by Craig Dimond. Back: photo by Welden Andersen.
Inside front cover: “With Joy Wend Your Way,” by Ardith Oddous, oil on canvas, 36″ x 40″, 1988. Courtesy of Don Biery. A painting depicting a group of pioneer children being taught by an older woman in a wagon company.
Inside back cover: Nauvoo Temple, by Thomas M. Easterly, daguerreotype, ca. 1846. Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society, Easterly 130. The Nauvoo Temple, built between 1840 and 1846 and dedicated publicly on 1–3 May 1846, stood as a monument to the determination of the Saints to “build a house to my name, for the Most High to dwell therein.” (D&C 124:27.) The temple was burned by an arsonist’s fire in 1848, and the walls were destroyed by a tornado in 1850.