Item Detail
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13662
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English
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Why Didn't You Go West, John Smith?
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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1999
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19
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79-94
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The author overviews the life of John Smith, his great-great grandfather. Smith, who was born in 1799. He joined the Church in the 1830s and suffered the persecution in Missouri and was acquainted with all the Church leaders in Nauvoo. He left Nauvoo in 1846 and settled in western Iowa. For various reasons that the author suggests, he decided to remain there rather than to go west to Utah. He is affiliated with the RLDS church.