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The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901

William Alexander Linn · Public domain text

254,127 words · about 17 h 48 min to read

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Author
William Alexander Linn (1846–1917)
Language
English
Subjects
Utah › History, Latter Day Saints › History
Length
254,127 words · about 17 h 48 min
Sections
89 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (89)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Preface about 9 min
  3. I. THE MORMON ORIGIN about 2 min
  4. II. IN OHIO about 1 min
  5. III. IN MISSOURI about 1 min
  6. IV. IN ILLINOIS about 3 min
  7. V. THE MIGRATION TO UTAH about 1 min
  8. VI. IN UTAH about 6 min
  9. I. FACILITY OF HUMAN BELIEF about 11 min
  10. II. THE SMITH FAMILY about 11 min
  11. III. HOW JOSEPH SMITH BECAME A MONEY-DIGGER about 14 min
  12. IV. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GOLDEN BIBLE about 9 min
  13. V. THE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS OF THE REVELATION OF THE BIBLE about 13 min
  14. VI. TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION OF THE BIBLE about 29 min
  15. VII. THE SPAULDING MANUSCRIPT about 14 min
  16. VIII. SIDNEY RIGDON about 26 min
  17. IX. "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" about 6 min
  18. X. THE WITNESSES TO THE PLATES about 20 min
  19. XI. THE MORMON BIBLE about 18 min
  20. XII. ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH about 14 min
  21. XIII. THE MORMONS' BELIEFS AND DOCTRINES--CHURCH GOVERNMENT about 27 min
  22. I. THE FIRST CONVERTS AT KIRTLAND about 10 min
  23. II. WILD VAGARIES OF THE CONVERTS about 4 min
  24. III. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH about 10 min
  25. IV. GIFTS OF TONGUES AND MIRACLES about 7 min
  26. V. SMITH'S OHIO BUSINESS ENTERPRISES about 18 min
  27. VI. LAST DAYS AT KIRTLAND about 14 min
  28. I. THE DIRECTIONS TO THE SAINTS ABOUT THEIR ZION about 8 min
  29. II. SMITH'S FIRST VISITS TO MISSOURI--FOUNDING THE CITY AND THE TEMPLE about 4 min
  30. III. THE EXPULSION FROM JACKSON COUNTY--THE ARMY OF ZION about 24 min
  31. IV. FRUITLESS NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE JACKSON COUNTY PEOPLE about 5 min
  32. V. IN CLAY, CALDWELL, AND DAVIESS COUNTIES about 5 min
  33. VI. RADICAL DISSENSIONS IN THE CHURCH--ORIGIN OF THE DANITES--TITHING about 12 min
  34. VII. BEGINNING OF ACTIVE HOSTILITIES about 9 min
  35. VIII. A STATE OF CIVIL WAR about 13 min
  36. IX. THE FINAL EXPULSION FROM THE STATE about 19 min
  37. I. THE RECEPTION OF THE MORMONS about 6 min
  38. II. THE SETTLEMENT OF NAUVOO about 5 min
  39. III. THE BUILDING UP OF THE CITY--FOREIGN PROSELYTING about 13 min
  40. IV. THE NAUVOO CITY GOVERNMENT--TEMPLE AND OTHER BUILDINGS about 14 min
  41. V. THE MORMONS IN POLITICS--MISSOURI REQUISITIONS FOR SMITH about 10 min
  42. VI. SMITH A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES about 9 min
  43. VII. SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN NAUVOO about 11 min
  44. VIII. SMITH'S PICTURE OF HIMSELF AS AUTOCRAT about 10 min
  45. IX. SMITH'S FALLING OUT WITH BENNETT AND HIGBEE about 6 min
  46. X. THE INSTITUTION OF POLYGAMY about 19 min
  47. XI. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DOCTRINE OF POLYGAMY about 15 min
  48. XII. THE SUPPRESSION OF THE EXPOSITOR about 11 min
  49. XIII. UPRISING OF THE NON-MORMONS--SMITH'S ARREST about 5 min
  50. XIV. THE MURDER OF THE PROPHET--HIS CHARACTER about 20 min
  51. XV. AFTER SMITH'S DEATH--RIGDON'S LAST DAYS about 16 min
  52. XVI. RIVALRIES OVER THE SUCCESSION about 8 min
  53. XVII. BRIGHAM YOUNG about 6 min
  54. XVIII. RENEWED TROUBLE FOR THE MORMONS--"THE BURNINGS" about 12 min
  55. XIX. THE EXPULSION OF THE MORMONS about 7 min
  56. XX. THE EVACUATION OF NAUVOO--"THE LAST MORMON WAR" about 14 min
  57. XXI. NAUVOO AFTER THE EXODUS about 8 min
  58. I. PREPARATIONS FOR THE LONG MARCH about 8 min
  59. II. FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE MISSOURI about 15 min
  60. III. THE MORMON BATTALION about 7 min
  61. IV. THE CAMPS ON THE MISSOURI about 6 min
  62. V. THE PIONEER TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS about 11 min
  63. VI. FROM THE ROCKIES TO SALT LAKE VALLEY about 12 min
  64. VII. THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES--LAST DAYS ON THE MISSOURI about 5 min
  65. I. THE FOUNDING OF SALT LAKE CITY about 11 min
  66. II. PROGRESS OF THE SETTLEMENT about 14 min
  67. III. THE FOREIGN IMMIGRATION TO UTAH about 12 min
  68. IV. THE HAND-CART TRAGEDY about 18 min
  69. V. EARLY POLITICAL HISTORY about 7 min
  70. VI. BRIGHAM YOUNG'S DESPOTISM about 14 min
  71. VII. THE "REFORMATION" about 11 min
  72. VIII. SOME CHURCH-INSPIRED MURDERS about 11 min
  73. IX. BLOOD ATONEMENT about 8 min
  74. X. THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT--JUDGE BROCCHUS'S EXPERIENCE about 15 min
  75. XI. MORMON TREATMENT OF FEDERAL OFFICERS about 16 min
  76. XII. THE MORMON "WAR" about 32 min
  77. XIII. THE MORMON PURPOSE about 12 min
  78. XIV. COLONEL KANE'S MISSION about 18 min
  79. XV. THE PEACE COMMISSION about 10 min
  80. XVI. THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE about 32 min
  81. XVII. AFTER THE "WAR" about 13 min
  82. XVIII. ATTITUDE OF THE MORMONS DURING THE SOUTHERN REBELLION about 15 min
  83. XIX. EASTERN VISITORS TO SALT LAKE CITY--UNPUNISHED MURDERERS about 8 min
  84. XX. GENTILE IRRUPTION AND MORMON SCHISM about 18 min
  85. XXI. THE LAST YEARS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG about 12 min
  86. XXII. BRIGHAM YOUNG'S DEATH--HIS CHARACTER about 13 min
  87. XXIII. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF POLYGAMY about 14 min
  88. XXIV. THE FIGHT AGAINST POLYGAMY--STATEHOOD about 33 min
  89. XXV. THE MORMONISM OF TO-DAY about 16 min

The opening of Preface

No chapter of American history has remained so long unwritten as that which tells the story of the Mormons. There are many books on the subject, histories written under the auspices of the Mormon church, which are hopelessly biased as well as incomplete; more trustworthy works which cover only certain periods; and books in the nature of "exposures" by former members of the church, which the Mormons attack as untruthful, and which rest, in the minds of the general reader, under a suspicion of personal bias. Mormonism, therefore, to-day suggests to most persons only one doctrine--polygamy--and only one leader--Brigham Young, who made his name familiar to the present generations. Joseph Smith, Jr., is known, where known at all, only in the most general way as the founder of the sect, while the real originator of the whole scheme for a new church and of its doctrines and government, Sidney Rigdon, is known to few persons even by name.

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