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LeSueur, Stephen C.

The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri

Columbia, Mo.

University of Missouri Press

1987

[1987 John Whitmer Historical Association winner for Best Book]

See the review by Roger D. Launius in Utah Historical Quarterly 56 (Spring 1988): 196. Also a review by James B. Allen in The Journal of American History 75 (September 1988): 611.

Danites
Award Winner
Missouri, Mormon War
Smith, Joseph, Jr., Missouri
Avard, Sampson

1820 : Dawning of the Restoration
A Contested Promised Land : Mormons, Slaveholders, and the Disputed Vision for Settlement of Western Missouri
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Alexander William Doniphan and the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
'Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen' : The Winter Exodus from Missouri, 1838-39
A Missionary Family : Mormon Lives of the Carter Clan of Benson, Vermont
’A More Powerful Effect upon the Body’ : Early Mormonism’s Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race.
Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Society of Like-Minded Men : American Localism and the Mormon Expulsion from Jackson County
A Tale of Two Mormons
Atchison's Letters and the Causes of Mormon Expulsion from Missouri
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
By Study and Also by Faith : Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 27 March 1990
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Contest and Controversy in the Creation of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Critiquing the Critics of Joseph Smith
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Ecclesiastical Economics : Some Financial Considerations of Mormon Settlement in Illinois
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
Equal Rites : The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
"Firm and Steadfast in the Faith" : Patterson O'Banion and the Battle of Crooked River
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Four American Prophets Confront Slavery : Joseph Smith, William Miller, Ellen G. White and Mary Baker Eddy
Four Zinas : A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier
From Mission to Madness : Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
Gathering in Harmony : A Saga of Southern Utah Families, Their Roots and Pioneering Heritage, and the Tale of Antone Prince, Sheriff of Washington County
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
Go Ye Into All the World : The Endeavors of Cyrus Smalling, Orson Hyde and Martin Harris
History May Be Searched in Vain : A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
'His Word Was as Good as His Note' : The Impact of Justus Morse's Mormonism(s) on His Families
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Joseph Smith and the Missouri Court of Inquiry : Austin A. King's Quest for Hostages
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith Papers : Histories, 1832-1844, Vol. 1
Joseph Smith : Praise to the Man
Joseph Smith, the Mormons, and Antebellum Reform : A Closer Look
Judge Austin A. King's Preliminary Hearing : Joseph Smith and the Mormons on Trial
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Leonard James Arrington (1917-1999) : A Bibliography
Letter from David Whitmer to Nathan West Concerning Caldwell County, Missouri, Property Once Owned by King Follett
Luana Hart Beebe (1814-1897) : A Biographical Sketch of a Remarkable Early Latter-day Saint
'Many Mansions' : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century Reorganized Church
Mapping Mormon Settlement in Caldwell County, Missouri
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Missouri Conflict
Missouri's Failed Compromise : The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons
Mixing Politics with Religion : A Closer Look at Electioneering and Voting in Caldwell and Daviess Counties in 1838
'Money-Diggersville'--The Brief, Turbulent History of the Mormon Town of Warren
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon and Methodist : Popular Religion in the Crucible of the Free Market
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormon Land Rights in Caldwell and Daviess Counties and the Mormon Conflict of 1838 : New Findings and New Understandings
Mormon Migration Through Atchison in 1855
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormontown : Collective Memories of a Cutlerite Colony in Iowa
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Mortal Enemies : Mormons and Missourians 1839-1844
National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture of Violence
News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865. Volume 3 : Missionaries, Mormons, 1821-1864. Indian Agents, Captives, 1832-1865
No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
One Side By Himself : The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894
Origin of the Baptism for the Dead Doctrine
Parallel Paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon History
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Persecution, Memory, and Mormon Identity in Parley Pratt's Autobiography
Pioneers in the Attic : Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Sampson Avard : The First Danite
Search for Asylum : The Mormons Petition the Kentucky Governor, 1845
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Seniority in the Twelve : The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt
"Some Savage Tribe" : Race, Legal Violence, and the Mormon War of 1838
Sonia's Awakening : White Mormon Expatriates in Africa and the Dismantling of Mormonism's Racial Consensus, 1852-1978
Stealing at Mormon Nauvoo
The Aiken Party Executions and the Utah War 1857-1858
The Aiken Party Executions and the Utah War, 1857-1858
The Bullion, Beck, and Champion Mining Company and the Redemption of Zion
The Community of Christ and the Search for a Usable Past
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
The Danites Reconsidered : Were They Vigilantes or Just the Mormons' Version of the Elks Club?
The Final Episode of Mormonism in Missouri in the 1830s : The Incarceration of the Mormon Prisoners at Richmond and Columbia Jails, 1838-1839
The Forgotten Story of Nauvoo Celestial Marriage
The Haun's Mill Massacre and the Extermination Order of Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs
The History and Acquisition of the Original Temple Lot Property in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The Joseph Smith Papers : Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 11 : September 1842–February 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers Documents, Volume 13: August-December 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 7 : September 1839–January 1841
The Joseph Smith Papers : Histories. Volume 2, Assigned Histories, 1831-1847
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Journey West : The Mormon Pioneer Journals of Horace K. Whitney with Insights by Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
The Last Called Mormon Colonization: Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin
The Last Months of Mormonism in Missouri : The Albert Perry Rockwood Journal
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Morley Settlement in Illinois, 1839-1846 : Tribe and Clan in a Nauvoo Mormon Community
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
The Mormon Military Experience: 1838 to the Cold War
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The People Versus the Prophet : Joseph Smith and the Criminal Law in Illinois
The Personal Cost of the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri : One Mormon's Plea for Forgiveness
The Possibilities of Mormon Peacebuilding
The Restoration of Conscientious Objection
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
To the "Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty" : Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843-44
Transformation of the Mormon Hierarchy at Far West, Missouri
Treachery and False Swearing in Missouri : The Rise and Fall of Sampson Avard
Treasonable Doubt : The Mormon War of 1838 and the Forcible Kingdom
Us-Them Tribalism and Early Mormonsim
'We have a Company of Danites in these Times' : The Danites, Joseph Smith, and the 1838 Missouri-Mormon Conflict
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
"We'll Sing and We'll Shout!" : Who is the Real W. W. Phelps?
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
When a Presidential Neighborhood Enters History : Community Change, Competing Histories, and Creative Tension in Independence, Missouri
When Joseph Smith Met Martin Van Buren : Mormonism and the Politics of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America
Why the Prophet is a Puzzle : The Challenges of Using Psychological Perspectives to Understand the Character and Motivation of Joseph Smith, Jr.
“You Had Better Let Mrs Young Have Any Thing She Wants” : What a Joseph Smith Pay Order Teaches about the Plight of Missionary Wives in the Early Church