The Missouri Mormon experience / edited by Thomas M. Spencer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spencer, Thomas M. (Thomas Morris), 1967-

Edward J. Lewis Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Missouri--History--19th century.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Latter Day Saint churches--Missouri--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Church history.

History.

Missouri--Church history--19th century.

Missouri.

Physical Description:

vi, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction: "Persecution in the most odious sense of the word" / Thomas M. Spencer

The Missouri context of antebellum Mormonism and its legacy of violence / Kenneth H. Winn

Reassessing Joseph Smith's "appointed time for the redemption of Zion" / Ronald E. Romig and Michael S. Riggs

Mormonism, millenarianism, and Missouri / Grant Underwood

The great temple of the New Jerusalem / Richard O. Cowan

The Mormon Temple site at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri / Alexander L. Baugh

"Was this really Missouri civilization?" The Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri and Mormon history / Thomas M. Spencer

But for the kindness of strangers : the Columbia, Missouri, response to the Mormon prisoners and the jailbreak of July 4, 1839 / Jean A. Pry and Dale A. Whitman

Lessons learned : the Nauvoo Legion and what the Mormons learned militarily in Missouri / Richard E. Bennett

Between the borders : Mormon transmigration through Missouri, 1838-1868 / Fred E. Woods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward J. Lewis Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780826218872

0826218873

OCLC:

456171111

Publisher Number:

99937461607