Fire and Sword: A History of the Latter-Day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39

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Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares. The Missouri period–especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over full of life, non-public direction of this new Zion till the spring of 1839 when he escaped after 5 months of imprisonment—represents a moment of intense crisis in Mormon history. Representing the best extremes of devotion and violence, commitment and intolerance, physical suffering and terror–mobbings, battles, massacres, and political “knockdowns”–it shadowed the Mormon psyche for a century. Within the lush Missouri landscape of the Mormon imagination where Adam and Eve had walked out of the garden and where Adam would go back to preside over his posterity, the towering non secular creativity of Joseph Smith and clash of non secular stereotypes created a swift and traumatic frontier drama that modified the Church.

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