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Mormons at the Missouri : A History of the Latter-day Saints at Winter Quarters and at Kanesville, 1846-52--A Study in American Overland Trail Migration
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2 vols., Wayne State University
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517
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Ph.D. diss.
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"The superficial details of the Mormon trek west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Basin valleys in present-day Utah are well known in American history. Less well studied and understood are the complex and multiple reasons that delayed their journey forcing them to establish a temporary headquarters in the Council Bluffs region at the Missouri River in the fall of 1846. This work begins by carefully examining those delaying factors, relying heavily upon primarily unpublished manuscript sources not readily available previously. From this starting point, what follows is a study of Mormon life in their newly built city of the plains, "Winter Quarters". Besides a detailing of such largely physical aspects of life (in what briefly then was the largest city in the upper American plains) as city lay-out, architectural design, health and sickness, Indian relations, and economics, much is provided about social, political, religious, and ecclesiastical developments. Special emphasis is placed on the skills and attitudes both men and women developed to survive in a hostile environment, on their increasingly peculiar religious beliefs and practises which included plural marriage and spiritual adoption, and on tracing the ecclesiastical developments of apostolic supremacy and succession in determining ultimate Church authority. Under the increasing dominance of Brigham Young, many of the doctrines, practices, leadership councils, and priorities that dominated the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for decades to come were firmly established at Winter Quarters and many important decisions were also made at the Missouri that determined their final destination in the Rocky Mountains. A final chapter examines the dissolution of Winter Quarters and the establishment of Mormon settlements across the river in Iowa Territory until 1852 and evaluates the impact and extent of defections." [Author's abstact]
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