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Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier
This thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West’s most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona’s White Mountains. On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons joined a sheriff’s posse to track and arrest five suspected outlaws. The next day, LeSueur and Gibbons, who had become separated from other posse members, were found brutally murdered. The outlaws belonged to Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang. Frank LeSueur was the great uncle of the book’s author, Stephen C. LeSueur. In writing about the Wild Bunch, historians have played up the outlaws’ daring heists and violent confrontations. Their ...
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
In the summer and fall of 1838, animosity between Mormons and their neighbors in western Missouri erupted into an armed conflict known as the Mormon War. The conflict continued until early November, when the outnumbered Mormons surrendered and agreed to leave the state. In this major new interpretation of those events, LeSueur argues that while a number of prejudices and fears stimulated the opposition of Missourians to their Mormon neighbors, Mormon militancy contributed greatly to the animosity between them. Prejudice and poor judgment characterized leaders on both sides of the struggle. In addition, LeSueur views the conflict as an expression of attitudes and beliefs that have fostered a vigilante tradition in the United States. The willingness of both Missourians and Mormons to adopt extralegal measures to protect and enforce community values led to the breakdown of civil control and to open warfare in northwestern Missouri.
Stephen LeSueur on 1838 Mormon-Missouri War
I'm excited to talk to historian Stephen LeSueur. He's written an amazing book called The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. We're going to talk more about it. It won the Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association. It's a little bit of an old book, published back in 1987. We're going to get more acquainted with Steve and learn more of his views of the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. Check out our conversation...
Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy
"Teacher, preacher, soldier, spy: the civil wars of John R. Kelso is an account of an extraordinary nineteenth-century American life. A schoolteacher and Methodist preacher in Missouri, in the Civil War Kelso earned fame fighting rebel guerrillas. Seeking personal revenge as well as defending the Union, he vowed to slay twenty-five rebels with his own hand, and when he did so he was elected to Congress. In the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, he was one of the first to call for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. After his term in Congress, personal tragedy drove him west, where he became a freethinking lecturer and author, an atheist, a Spiritualist, and, before his ...
The Missouri Mormon Experience
The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence fed by misunderstanding and suspicion. By the end of 1838, blood was shed, and Governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that Mormons were to be “exterminated or driven from the state.” The Missouri persecutions greatly shaped Mormon faith and culture; this book reexamines Mormon-Missourian history within the sociocultural context of its time. The contributors to this volume unearth the challenges and assumptions on both sides of the conflict, as well as the cultural baggage that dictated how their actions and responses played on each other. Shortly after Joseph Smith proclaimed Jackson County th...
Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration
While no one thing can entirely explain the rise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the historical influence of Freemasonry on this religious tradition cannot be refuted. Those who study Mormonism have been aware of the impact that Freemasonry had on the founding prophet Joseph Smith during the Nauvoo period, but his involvement in Freemasonry was arguably earlier and broader than many modern historians have admitted. The fact that the most obvious vestiges of Freemasonry are evident only in the more esoteric aspects of the Mormon faith has made it difficult to recognize, let alone fully grasp, the relevant issues. Even those with both Mormon and Masonic experience may not b...
Fire and Sword
Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares. The Missouri period--especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over vigorous, personal direction of this new Zion until the spring of 1839 when he escaped after five months of imprisonment--represents a moment of intense crisis in Mormon history. Representing the greatest 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. Leland Gentry was the first to step beyond this disturbing period as a one-sided symbol of religious persecution and move toward understanding...
Foundational Texts of Mormonism
Introduction / Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen, and Sharalyn D. Howcroft -- The gold plates as foundational text / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Textual criticism and the Book of Mormon / Grant Hardy -- Intertextuality and the purpose of Joseph Smith¿'s new translation of the Bible / Thomas A. Wayment -- The dictation, compilation, and canonization of Joseph Smith's revelations / Grant Underwood -- Joseph Smith's Missouri prison letters and the Mormon textual community / David W. Grua -- The textual culture of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society leadership and minute book / Jennifer Reeder -- Joseph Smith's preaching and the early Mormon documentary record / William V. Smith -- Joseph Smith's Nauvoo journals / Alex D. Smith and Andrew H. Hedges -- The early diaries of Wilford Woodruff, 1835-1839 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- A textual and archival reexamination of Lucy Mack Smith's History / Sharalyn D. Howcroft -- The image as text and context in early Mormon history / Jeffrey G. Cannon -- Joseph Smith and the conspicuous absence of early Mormon documentation / Ronald O. Barney
Framing the Apocalypse
The apocalypse’s triumph is witnessed in the arts, literature, music, film, TV, and digital media thereby enabling us to view the very essence of Apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon.
