Item Detail
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28210
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32
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English
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Latter-day Saints in Lee County, Iowa
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Journal of Mormon History
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July 2017
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43
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3
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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46-67
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While never as large or influential as Nauvoo, the Mormon presence in Lee County, Iowa, shows much about the regional experience of the Latter-day Saints along the Mississippi and illuminates the tensions and conflict between the Saints and their neighbors in the area. The Iowa Saints' experiences paint a fuller picture of the Mormon presence along the Mississippi. They spread Mormon influence throughout the area, expected the Church to grow there, and participated in a larger discourse of LDS experience.
Their interactions with their Iowa neighbors sheds light on the types and causes of conflict that Latter-day Saints faced in the region. It was sometimes typical frontier discord, but often more venomous tension in response to the influential presence of the Saints in Nauvoo and the criminal behavior that the Iowans associated with them. Finally, the tendency of the Saints to stick together instead of integrating with the other Lee County residents led to disunity,
resulting in attempts to drive the Saints from the state and an almost
complete disappearance from local history. Zarahemla and the other
Latter-day Saint settlements of Lee County are listed as brief, failed
settlements, but they offer much in terms of a broader understanding
of the Latter-day Saint presence in the greater Nauvoo area. -
www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.43.3.0046
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