Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844 Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844 The life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844, when he was 34–38 years old, covers the period of Smith's life when he lived in Nauvoo, an eventful and highly controversial period of the Latter Day Saint movement. After Smith was imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois, the church members slipped him and his brother guns into the jail. He was planning on breaking out. After giving up on being broke out by his legion troups he shot three men and killed them before his gun jammed. The mob broke down thr door as