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Crown of Glory : The Life of James J. Strang, Moses of the Mormons
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New Haven, Conn.
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Yale University Press
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"Jesse Strang was one of the most astonishing of our recurrent religious prophets who combine the graces of religious leadership, political science, and high oratory. Breaking off from the parent body of Mormons, he provided his own set of brass tablets to establish his claims to semi-divinity, and took his followers to a "never-never land" which happened to be an island off Michigan. There he founded a kingdom (although he was also elected to the Michigan State Legislature) and battled mightily against the gentiles and all the forces of evil. In his youth Strang was a disciple of Paine and the Cult of Reason, but he was early converted to Mormonism and direct revelation. Intelligent, gentle at heart, he smote the unbelievers hip and thigh for the glory of the true kingdom as he saw it coming. No country but America could have produced him, and America herself took little pride in him. But he was a man not without virtue, tried by the frontier and the devious wiles of Satan and winning all his battles but one-that was the last one." [Author]
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American frontier religions: Mormons and their dissenters 1830- 1900
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Emma Hale : Wife of the Prophet Joseph
James J. Strang : The Prophet Who Failed
Mormon History
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
'Something Was Wanting' : The Meteoric Career of John Greenbow, Mormon Propagandist
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
The Communittarian World of the Nineteenth-Century Latter Day Saints
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Saintly Scoundrel : The life and times of Dr. John Cook Bennett