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3620
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English
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The Mormon Experience in Missouri, 1830-1839
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Missouri Historical Review
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April and July 1974
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68
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280-98, 393-415
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Part I. Discusses Mormon history in Missouri during the 1830s and the difficulties they experienced. First settling in Jackson County, most Mormons had moved by 1836 to Caldwell County due to violence resulting in differences over the treatment of free Negroes. Conflicts between the Mormons and the state militia finally brought about an order to drive them from the state. The Mormons then migrated to Illinois. Part II Claims that the most important factor in the Mormon experience in Missouri is that wherever a Mormon community existed near non-Mormon settlements, the differences in social organization and philosophy generated social tension and often violence. Based on documents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, contemporary newspaper reports, and secondary sources.