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Trouble with the Mormons...
Trouble with the Mormons...
Item # 685132
November 09, 1844
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Nov. 9, 1844
* Nauvoo Legion militia - Illinois
* Mormons - Mormonism War ?
* Governor Thomas Ford
The back page has a report: 'Mormon Disturbances" which mentions in part: "...renewed apprehensions &I some singular movements in the neighborhood of Nauvoo. A detachment of Mormons...assembled near Carthage...A company of 'Indians' (probably anti Mormons in disguise) also assembled in the vicinity...that the Nauvoo legion at the last, accounts, were being armed & by order of Gov. Ford were to march to Carthage, where the trial of Sharp and others accused of the murder of Joe 'smith was progressing."
Sixteen pages, 8 1/2 by 12 inches, 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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