Nauvoo

A history of what became a romanticlegend about a martyred prophet, a lost city, and religious persecution,this volume tells the story of Nauvoo, the early Mormon Church, and thetemporal life of Joseph Smith. Nauvoo (1839-46) was a critical period inMormon history. The climax of Smith's career and the start of Brigham Young's,it was here that Utah really had it's beginnings and that the pattern ofMormon society in the West was laid."...the quality and quantity of research is commendable... an excellentcontribution to American mid-western history and to Mormoniana in general."        -- Journal of American History