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24091
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English
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The Missouri Context of Antebellum Mormonism and Its Legacy of Violence
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The Missouri Mormon Experience
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Columbia, Mo.
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University of Missouri Press
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19-26
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"The basic outline of what happened when the Mormons settled in Missouri is well-known: the violent expulsion from Jackson County in 1833, the expulsion from Clay County in 1834, the creation of Caldwell County as an Indian-style reservation for the Mormons in 1836, and finally the Mormon War, in which Governor Lilburn Boggs, a citizen of Jackson County, issued his famous extermination order expelling church members from the state in 1838." [p. 23] "The Mormon War framed the thinking of an entire generation of young men in western Missouri, and helped frame it for violence. I am not suggesting that persecuting the Mormons led to the Lawrence massacre or to Jesse James. But I am suggesting that the Missouri reaction to Mormonism worked as a poison pill, giving western Missourians a psychological framework, a language, and a behavior to deal with those whom they opposed." [p. 24-25]
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