Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / History of His Life and Labors, as Recorded in His Daily Journals

The narrative draws on decades of daily journals to chronicle a religious leader's life from early conversion through extensive missionary work, participation in seminal movements and migrations, ordination to high leadership, and eventual presidency of his faith. It recounts travel, congregational founding, temple responsibilities, administrative initiatives in education, personal family details, narrow escapes and healings interpreted as divine intervention, and interactions with contemporaneous church figures. Organized chronologically with reflective passages and firsthand entries, the account emphasizes steadfast devotion, meticulous record-keeping, and the spiritual convictions that guided institutional development and communal migration.