summary There are no historical events that have more iconic significance for the people of
Utah than the trek of the vanguard company of Mormons west in 1847. Its meaning may vary …

" We are a peculiar people," President Joseph Young informed a group of" brethren and
sisters" in July 1855." Our circumstances have been trying and vexatious all the way …

Mormonism is among the most studied religious phenomena of American history. Yet little
attention has been devoted to one of its most telling and, at the time, most famous chapters …

In 1980, D. Michael Quinn's seminal essay," The Council of Fifty and Its Mem bers, 1844 to
1945," argued that new research into the council" requires a rewrit ing" of recent" scholarly …

Christopher James Blythe the council of fifty—or the Kingdom of God as it was called by
revelation1—was Mormonism's final institutional development under Joseph Smith. Unlike …

Joseph linois envisioned at Smith Nauvoo, himself was he as a established a very king
audacious presiding a theocratic/over and ambitious an political empire that individual» …

Today,(Cutlerite) with survives. less than The twenty small active church members, has likely
the never Church had of more Jesus than Christ two (Cutlerite) survives. The small church …

In September 1853, Alpheus Cutler (1784–1864) and a few followers founded a schismatic
Latter-day Saint organization, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite). 1 Cutler left only one …

Note: Part 1, published in the spring 2008 issue, describes the Book of Mor mon passages
and Joseph Smith revelations that were foundational in launching the doctrine of the" …

At Nauvoo, Illinois, in the early 1840s the founding Latter-day Saint prophet, Joseph Smith
Jr., began covertly introducing a highly selective collection of men and women—the …