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This week’s entry: Missouri Mormon War. What it’s about: Not strictly speaking a war, but the first of three small-scale armed conflicts between Mormon settlers and their non-Mormon neighbors.
But Latter-day Saints had conflicts with other Missouri settlers over land, commerce and governance and, by 1838, the violence grew so bad that modern textbooks call it the Missouri Mormon War.
Frank Nickell calls the 1838 extermination order directed at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), issued by then-Gov. Lilburn Boggs, “one of the saddest stories in American ...
It includes the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. I imagine if you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you already knew this. I did not.
If it wasn’t for the Mormon War of the late-1830s, Missouri, and not Utah, would probably be the Mormon capital of the world. In 1838 and 1839, following an “extermination” order issued by ...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (RNS) Few places have greater historic and religious significance to Mormons than Missouri. Likewise few places have been the site of greater Mormon conflict. By Tim Townsend.
Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon movement, marked the 2.75-acre parcel, known as the 'Temple Lot,' in Independence, Missouri for a temple for Jesus Christ's Second Coming.
Hostilities between the Latter Day Saints and their Missouri neighbors ignited the Missouri Mormon War in 1838. “We had 17 or 18 men and boys massacred in northern Missouri,” Mackay said.
Later, conflicts with other settlers resulted in the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, and an executive order signed by then-Gov. Lilburn Boggs stating that "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and ...
The church sent out missions to Native American tribes on the western edge of the United States, which at the time was Jackson County, Missouri. Smith claims to have had a revelation in 1831 that ...
The Mormon War: Zion and the Missouri Extermination Order of 1838 Brandon G. Kinney. Westholme, $28 (280p) ISBN 978-1-159416-130-8 ...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — In 1831, Mormon founder Joseph Smith declared that the righteous would gather in Independence, Mo., to greet the Second Coming of Jesus Christ — just one of the prophecies ...