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(More customer reviews)If half the stories about Orrin Porter Rockwell were true, he would have had to have been a dozen men: half of them angels of righteousness and half of them devils of infernal darkness. Whatever you think of him, you have to admit he was quite a character.
When I first read Richard Lloyd Dewey's book, I thought it was merely a rehash of Harold Schindler's "Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder." Of course, both authors were writing about the same man. As I compared the books, however, I found that Schindler was more likely to repeat claims of writers who were out to "expose" the evil of Mormonism, while Dewey pointed out the inconsistencies, implausibilities, and impossibilities of some long-repeated legends surrounding Orrin Porter Rockwell (such as non-Mormons he was said to have killed in the Salt Lake Valley when he was in California and there were no Non-LDS whites in the valley, yet).
Some reviews fault Dewey for including parts of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that don't feature Rockwell as a major player; the background information is essential for understanding the events of Old Port's life, and it was a lively life.
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