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At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting his own religion and creating his own Golden Biblethe Book of Mormonhe had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. Hed led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chicago. He was running for president. And, secretly, he had married more than thirty women.
In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: How his most seismic revelationthe doctrine of polygamycreated a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride.
Mormonism is Americas largest and most enduring native religion, and the martyrdom of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational events. Smiths brutal assassination propelled the Mormons to colonize the American West and claim their place in the mainstream of American history. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence, with deep roots in our national identity.
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American Crucifixion
Also by Alex Beam:
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The Americans Are Coming!
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Copyright 2014 by Alex Beam.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beam, Alex.
American crucifixion : the murder of Joseph Smith and the fate of the Mormon church / Alex
Beam.First Edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61039-314-0 (ebook) 1. Smith, Joseph, Jr.,
18051844Assassination. 2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsHistory. 3. Mormon
ChurchHistory. I. Title.
BX8695.S6B385 2014
289.3092dc23
[B]
2014004063
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To my mother, beyond the veil
If you can imagine yourselves how the apostles and saints felt when the Savior was crucified, you can give something of a guess of how the Saints felt here when they [heard] that their Prophet and Patriarch were both Dead and murdered by a lawless mob. Never has there been such a horrible crime committed since the day Christ was Crucified...
SALLY RANDALL, writing to Mormon friends from Nauvoo, Illinois, July 1, 1844
CONTENTS
JOSEPH SMITH JR.: thirty-eight years old, founder of the Mormon Church
EMMA HALE SMITH: thirty-nine, Josephs first wife
LUCY MACK SMITH: Josephs mother
HYRUM SMITH: forty-four, Josephs older brother
WILLIAM SMITH AND SAMUEL SMITH: younger brothers
JOSEPH SMITH III: Joseph and Emmas oldest son
BRIGHAM YOUNG: head of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Joseph Smiths successor as head of the church
SIDNEY RIGDON: early convert to Mormonism, orator and theologian
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL: aide and friend to Joseph, a frontiersman and killer, one of the churchs Avenging Angels
WILLARD RICHARDS: Mormon church leader and Josephs personal historian
JOHN TAYLOR: apostle, future church president
WILLIAM MARKS: Nauvoo stake (ecclesiastical district) president
HIRAM KIMBALL: wealthy Nauvoo merchant who later converted to Mormonism
HEBER KIMBALL: one of the original twelve apostles
WILLIAM LAW: prominent church member and businessman, backer of dissident newspaper Nauvoo Expositor
JANE LAW: Williams wife
WILSON LAW: Williams brother, Nauvoo Legion general, City Council chairman
CHARLES AND WILLIAM FOSTER: prominent Mormon dissidents, co-publishers of the Nauvoo Expositor
CHAUNCEY AND FRANCIS HIGBEE: dissident sons of a prominent church leader
THOMAS SHARP: influential anti-Mormon newspaper editor in nearby Warsaw, Illinois
GOVERNOR THOMAS FORD: accidental governor of Illinois who tried to mediate between the Mormons and their enemies
GOVERNOR LILBURN BOGGS: governor of Missouri, Mormon-hater, author of the 1838 anti-Mormon Extermination Order
STEPHEN DOUGLAS: influential Illinois legislator, initially pro-Mormon
DR. ISAAC GALLAND: scalawag who sold government lands he didnt own to the Mormons
JAMES GORDON BENNETT: pro-Mormon editor of the New York Herald
JOHN C. BENNETT: former Nauvoo mayor, turned Mormon-hater
JAMES STRANG: Mormon prophet who attempted to take over the church after Josephs death
Babylon: The un-Zion, where all non-Mormons, or Gentiles, live
Caldwell County, Missouri: Scene of the 1838 anti-Mormon War
Carthage, Illinois: Hancock County seat, site of Joseph Smiths death
Montrose, Iowa: Mormon settlement on the Mississippis west bank, in the Half-Breed Tract
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois: Mormon city founded in 1839, razed by Mormon-haters in 1846
Utah Territory, the Great Salt Lake: Destination of the 1847 Mormon Trek, the religions eventual home
Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois: Tiny town eclipsed by more populous Nauvoo; hotbed of anti-Mormon hatred
Zion: Gathering place of the righteous, i.e., the Mormons; initially Far West, Missouri, then Nauvoo, and ultimately Salt Lake City, Utah
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