A President, a Church, and Trails West

A President, a Church, and Trails West

Author: Jon E. Taylor

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0826266444

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"Examines the efforts of Independence, Missouri, to preserve and balance competing elements of the city's history: as the hometown of President Harry S. Truman; as the site where Joseph Smith established the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; and as the historic gathering place for western emigration"--Provided by publisher.


Mormon Thoroughfare

Mormon Thoroughfare

Author: Marlene C. Kettley

Publisher: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780842526524

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Latter-day Saint missionaries entered Illinois in the year 1830. This book tells of the conversion of future apostle Charles C. Rich, Zion's Cmap, the Kirtland Camp, and the Saints' exodus from Missouri to Quncy, Illinois.