[…] the spring, Sarah and Orson headed upstream to Quincy, Illinois, a temporary haven for Mormon refugees from Missouri. By mid-May 1839, they were living in a small log cabin with the Wilford Woodruff family […]
[…] long as we have no special rule in the Church, as to people of color, let pru dence guide, and while they, as well as we, are in the hands of a merciful God, […]
Mormons, whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, have entered the Secular City. This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of […]
[…] technology had removed the suspense and surprise, I experienced one of the most spectacular entrances into any city in the United States. Before the freeway, before Summit Park and Jeremy Ranch, way back then, […]
Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. In 1963, Joseph Hen derson, a non-Mormon from New York, wrote a pointed letter to LDS Church apostle Joseph Fielding Smith asking him about […]
[…] over the effects of the tar and feathers, they took their horses and started for Jackson County, Missouri, a distance of about 1000 miles. They laid out the town of Independence in Jackson County […]
[…] Ohio, in 1835, were dis covered in New York City. It was a find that created consi derable excitement. This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected […]
[…] Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1973. $3.95. Church History Resources on Microfilm. Independence, Missouri: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1973, $1.00. Order from: Research Library and […]
[…] Utah Presses, 1974. $6.50 Reprint of 1922 edition. Etzenhouser, Rudolph. From Palmyra, New York, Eighteen-Thirty, to Independence Missouri, Eighteen-Ninty-Four. New York: AMS Press, 1972. $24.00 Reprint of 1894 edition. Evans, R. C. Forty Years […]
[…] during Smith’s administration mirrored his theological dualism with respect to war. When the Mormons in Jackson County, Missouri, were mobbed by anti-Mormons in 1833, they suffered without retaliating. Smith, however, in 1834 organized a […]