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Guide Home > Early LDS History > Persecution > Missouri Problems

Additional Topics

The following are additional topic areas related to Missouri Problems. If there is a bracket number after the topic, that number indicates how many actual articles there are related to that subject. If the link for the topic is not live, it simply means the topic is a 'planned area' for future growth.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism

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Max H. Parkin, "Missouri Conflict," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 927-932

Dale A. Whitman, "Extermination Order," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 480

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Alexander L. Baugh, "From High Hopes to Despair: The Missouri Period, 1831-39," Ensign, July 2001, 44. An good (and brief) overview of a decade of tensions and trials.

Max H. Parkin, "Lessons from Experience," Ensign, July 2001, 52. A discussion of the persecutions in Missouri and their causes. Also discusses, briefly, how the Church stance on slavery caused friction with other Missouri residents.

Recommended Reading

If you are interested in more information about the topic of 'Early LDS History,' you may want to refer to the books listed below. These books are available in the FAIR Bookstore; click on a link to find more information.

Terryl L. Givens, The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy (Oxford University Press, 1997, 205 pages). Strategies used by anti-Mormon writers to viilify Mormons in nineteenth-century fiction and press to condemn Mormon faith, politics and culture.

 

 

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