Item Detail
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The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
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1979
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Illinois, places in
Smith, Joseph, Jr., miscellaneous
Nauvoo, Ill.
Exodus
Nauvoo, Ill., exodus
Women
Accommodation
Family life
Economics, 20th century
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic groups
Anti-Mormonism, U.S., 19th century
Administrative history
Ecclesiastical units, wards and branches
Native Americans
U.S. government, relations with
General overviews, 19th-20th centuries (books) -
Includes, but not limited to, detailed discussion of Mormon wards, the role of women in Mormon history, family life, Nauvoo, the exodus and move to the West, immigration, ethnic groups, Native Americans, relations with U.S. government, 20th century economics, persecution, and administrative history.
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Notes: 2d ed., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. ( Chapter 5, "Dispersion and the Exodus under Brigham Young," reprinted as "Brigham Young Leads the Mormons into the West," in The Underside of American History, 5th ed., ed. Thomas R. Frazier, Volume 1: To 1877, 381-404. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.)