Item Detail
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19803
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3
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14
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English
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In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo : Prelude to Joseph Smith's Financial Disasters
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Journal of Mormon History
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Winter 2009
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35
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no.1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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23-49
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In September 1840, five Nauvoo residents, including Joseph and Hyrum Smith, purchased on credit a steamboat named the "Des Moines." This vessel had been used by the Lieutenant Robert E. Lee and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to blast and remove obstacles in the Mississippi River. The Mormons renamed the boat the "Nauvoo" and began using it as a commercial transport. In November 1840 the boat ran aground and was severely damaged. The non-Mormon pilots were sued for intentional negligence, but fled the state. This article covers the legal troubles that followed as the creditors demanded payment and Joseph Smith was unfairly denied petitions for bankruptcy. All of this occurred in the nationwide depressions that occurred in the aftermath of the Panic of 1837.
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'A More Virtuous Man Never Existed on the Footstool of the Great Jehovah' : George Miller on Joseph Smith
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith And Legal Process : In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Mormonism and the Mormons
Murder of the Mormon Prophet : the Political Prelude to the Death of Joseph Smith
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Nauvoo : The City of Joseph
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Sketches and Anecdotes of the Old Settlers and New Comers; The Mormon Bandits and Danite Band
The Consequential Counselor : Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause
The Des Moines Rapids : A History of its Adverse Effects on Mississippi River Traffic and Its Use as a Source of Water Power to 1860
The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
The Steamboat Maid of Iowa : Mormon Mistress of the Mississippi