This post wraps up the series on Parley Pratt’s influential autobiography. As a review, and also a reference, here are all of the intelligent and insightful contributions:

1. Ben Park: Introduction
2. Ben Park: Parley’s Writing as Restoration and Redemption
3. Ryan Tobler: The Literary Impulse
4. Matt Grow: Writing the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
5. Adriane Rodrigues: Pratt’s Use of Literary Voice
6. Bored in Vernal: Conjugal Relations of Parley P. Pratt as Portrayed in his Autobiography
7. Joseph Spencer: Parley Pratt’s Poetry
8. Steve Taysom: Pratt and the Enervating Power of Evil
9. David Grua: Persecution, Memory, and Mormon Identity
10. Matt Bowman: The Conversion of Parley P. Pratt; or, Patterns of Mormon Piety
11. Jared T.amez: Racial Perceptions and Pratt’s 1851 Mission to Chili (Part 1; Part 2)
12. David Knowlton: Pratt and the Problem of Separating Latin and Anglo America

There is a lot to chew on here, and yet there are several questions still left unanswered (and, perhaps more importantly, unasked).

Overall thoughts on the series?