Item Detail
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25964
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36
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English
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"Some Savage Tribe" : Race, Legal Violence, and the Mormon War of 1838
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Journal of Mormon History
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Winter 2014
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40
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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175-207
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As faithful members of the Church answered their Prophet's call to settle the Missouri wilderness, tensions rapidly escalated between the Mormon immigrants and their new neighbors, the "old settlers" of Missouri. At times the two camps managed to coexist peacefully, but by the fall of 1838, the sporadic violence erupted into open combat. For three months, a state of "civil war reigned in northern Missouri." General Lilburn W. Boggs, responding to sensational reports...dispatched an urgent command: "Your orders are, therefore, to hasten your operation with all possible speed. The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace-their outrages are beyond all description." Within a week, the Mormon War of 1838 had come to a close: scores were slain, the Mormon leadership had surrendered for imprisonment, and thousands of Mormon refugees, many of their homes still smoldering, began the arduous winter journey east into neighboring Illinois. [From the article]
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