Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Missouri Context of Antebellum Mormonism and Its Legacy of Violence -- Reassessing Joseph Smith's "Appointed Time for the Redemption of Zion" -- Mormonism, Millenarianism, and Missouri -- The Great Temple of the New Jerusalem -- The Mormon Temple Site at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri -- "Was This Really Missouri Civilization?": The Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri and Mormon History -- But for the Kindness of Strangers: The Columbia, Missouri, Response to the Mormon Prisoners and the Jailbreak of July 4, 1839 -- Lessons Learned: The Nauvoo Legion and What the Mormons Learned Militarily in Missouri -- Between the Borders: Mormon Transmigration through Missouri, 1838-1868 -- Contributors -- Index.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-Missouri-History-19th century. Mormon Church-Missouri-History-19th century. Missouri-Church history-19th century.