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English
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Fate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith : Transmutations of an American Myth
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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292-298
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At the hands of an incensed mob, Joseph Smith was murdered, early summer, 1844. The instant he died the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was given cultural birth. No meeting of a required six members, no ecclesiastical approval from any council or governing body could have given the Mormon Church its operational base as did the death of Joseph Smith. Now the Mormons had a martyr. [From the text]