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Johnson, Melvin C.

"So We Built a Good Little Temple to Worship In" : Mormonism on the Pedernales -- Texas, 1847-1851

John Whitmer Historical Association Journal

2002

22

2002

89-98

Johnson characterizes the two-story log multi-purpose building constructed by the followers of Lyman Wight in Zodiac, Texas, as the "first Mormon temple west of the Mississippi River." He describes the religious rituals performed in the "temple" by Wight's followers.

Dissent and dissenters, 19th century
Temple ritual
Wight, Lyman
Schisms, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Strangites)
Texas
Schisms, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Wightites)
Zodiac, Tex.
Hawley, John

John Hawley, Mormon Ulysses : His LDS Mission to Iowa and Eventual RLDS Conversion
Kirtland, Nauvoo, and Zodiac : A Commentary on Early Mormon Temples
"This Institution Is a Good One" : The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 17 March 1842 to 16 March 1844

'For Life, the Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting' : James J. Strang and Strangite Mormon Polygamy, 1849-1856
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-52 : 'And Should We Die'
Mormons in Texas : The Lyman Wight Colony
Polygamy among James Strang and His Followers
The Fiery Darts of the Adversary : An Interpretation of Early Cutlerism
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The Lyman Wight Colony in Texas, 1846-1858
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power