Joseph Bates Noble : polygamy and the Temple Lot case / David L. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, David L. (David Leigh), 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noble, Joseph Bates, 1810-1900.

Noble, Joseph Bates.

Church of Christ (Temple Lot).

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Latter Day Saints--Biography.

Latter Day Saints.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Biography.

Latter Day Saint churches--Biography.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ Latter day Saints--History.

Polygamy.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Mormon Church--History.

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints--History.

Church of Christ (Temple Lot)--History.

History.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Polygamy--Religious aspects.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2009]

Summary:

Joseph Bates Noble's life story set in the context of a court deposition of a land dispute between two offshoot branches of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Contents:

Discovery techniques

Making hay with a prophet

Zion's camp and Zion's scamps

Love, marriage, and Kirtland

Far west misery

The Nobles and the river

Nauvoo and a plurality of problems

1844 death by murder

Mud roofs in winter quarters

Crossing the plains with Eliza and Joseph

"The place" as home

Reformation, wives, and war

A bountiful harvest

There is an end to nonsense

A Noble ending.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

ISBN:

9780874809374

0874809371

OCLC:

234380391