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English
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Diversity in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis : A Scotsman's Description
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BYU Studies
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2011
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50
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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111-126
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"In 1840, Douglas Miln, a Scotsman visiting St. Louis, Missouri, wrote a letter to Reverend William Beckett of Aberdeen, Scotland. In it Miln decried mob violence, the usurping of power by the rich, conditions of slaves, the slave trade, and religious diversity as he saw it in the frontier town. Then he spent more than half of his four long pages describing Mormonism, at that time only ten years old but with a significant presence in Missouri. Miln took much of his text directly from a short book by John Corrill that described the origins of Mormonism. Miln's objective description of Mormonism differed from the treatment Mormonism usually received from the press and from American society at large." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
Sidney Rigdon's Missouri Speeches
The Ebb and Flow of Mormonism in Scotland, 1840-1900
The Saints and St. Louis, 1831-1857 : An Oasis of Tolerance and Security