Item Detail
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4840
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Lee, E. G
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The Mormons; or, knavery exposed. Giving an account of the discovery of the golden plates; the translation and various tricks resorted to—the proceedings at Kirtland—building a temple—establishment of a bank, a correct specimen of its notes, of which two hundred thousand dollars worth have been pawned off upon the community of Frankford, Pa., rid themselves of the Mormons—documents printed by order of the Senate of the United States. The whole being designed as a caution to the ignorant and unsuspecting against one of the most barefaced and blasphemous devices which has ever been witnessed, affording a lamentable exhibition of the credulity and weakness of human nature in so readily allowing itself to be made the dupe of artful and designing knaves
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Frankford, Pa.
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Published by E. G. Lee; Frankford, Pa., George Weber and William Fenimore. Philadelphia
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1841
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1841
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24p
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22cm
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facsim
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Account of Joseph Smith's career by J. A. Clark, p. 5–12; financial chicanery at Kirtland by Cyrus Smalling, p. 12–15; and discussion by E. G. Lee and others of Lee's appearance at a Mormon meeting which broke up in a riot
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Howes M815
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CSmH, CtY, NN, USlC
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Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; New York Public Library, New York, New York; Church Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah