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Orrin Porter Rockwell, the Mormon bodyguard...
Orrin Porter Rockwell, the Mormon bodyguard...
Item # 685085
March 25, 1843
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, March 25, 1843
* Porter Rockwell - Utah Territory lawman
* Bodyguard and friend of Joseph Smith arrest
* Mormons - Mormonism - Latter Day Saints
* Attempted murder of Governor Lilburn Boggs
The back page has a small report: "Mormons" noting: "Orrin Porter Rockwell, the Mormon, who has been accused of being the person who attempted to assassinate ex-governor Boggs, of Missouri, last summer, was apprehended at St. Louis on the 6th instant and committed to jail. He will now haver to stand his trial."
Rockwell served as a bodyguard and personal friend of Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith. After Smith's death in 1844 Rockwell became a bodyguard of his successor, Brigham Young, and traveled with him and church members to the Salt Lake Valley.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, very nice condition.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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