Fire and Sword: A History of the Latter-Day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39
- ISBN-10
- 1589581202
- ISBN-13
- 9781589581203
- Series
- Fire and Sword
- Category
- Missouri
- Pages
- 613
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-11-23
- Publisher
- Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
- Authors
- Leland Homer Gentry, Todd Compton
Description
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. In the lush Missouri landscape of the Mormon imagination where Adam and Eve had walked out of the garden and where Adam would return to preside over his posterity, the towering religious creativity of Joseph Smith and clash of religious stereotypes created a swift and traumatic frontier drama that changed the Church.
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