Richard E. Bennett

RICHARD E. BENNETT is head of the Department of Archives & Special Collections of the University of Manitoba Libraries in Winnipeg. This paper was delivered at the annual meeting of the Mormon History Association, May 1985, at Independence, Missouri. His forthcoming book, tentatively entitled "And Should We Die: Mormons at the Missouri 1846- 52," has been accepted for publication in 1987 by the University of Oklahoma Press. This essay was awarded DIALOGUE'S third prize in the history category, 1985.

Meaning Still Up for Grabs | Roger D. Launius, Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4

Firmly established in Mormon history is Joseph Smith’s 1834 crusade from Kirt land, Ohio, to the borders of Jackson County, Missouri, to “redeem Zion.” Its purpose was to assist Latter-day Saints lately driven from their…

Eastward to Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4

These were the words of Brigham Young to his Mormon followers at the first Sunday services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city’s proposed Main Street. Daniel H. Wells and William Cutler had brought the sobering news into camp just two days before that Nauvoo had been overrun in the skirmish known as the Nauvoo Battle. The subsequent sufferings of the dispossessed and starving citizens of Nauvoo spurred Brigham and his fellow apostles into even greater relief action than that already underway. “Let the fire of the covenant which you made in the House of the Lord, burn in your hearts, like flame unquenchable,” he re minded the Saints, “till you, by yourselves or delegates . . . [can] rise up with his team and go straightway and bring a load of the poor from Nauvoo . . . [for] this is a day of action and not of argument” (Journal History, 28 Sept. 1846).

A Welcome Arrival, A Promising Standard: The Pioneer Camp of the Saints

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 1