Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852
Subtitle: And Should We Die
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780806136158
Subjects: Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints); c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; Religion - World Religions; Western & Pacific Coast states; Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saomts (; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Ancient - General; Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saomts (Mormon); Religion - Mormon / LDS
First sentence: Joseph Smith Jr., the Mormon prophet, and his brother, Hyrum, had been dead scarcely a year when the Latter-day Saints decided to leave their beloved city of Nauvoo, Illinois, and risk their future in the isolated Rocky Mountain West.